One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.
I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.
I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.
You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.
When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.
When I read a story that I think has value and I want to be in it, that doesn't change for me. It doesn't fall out of favor for me. I might have to move on because the universe is saying you can't make this right now. But I'm going to circle back and make it.
I wait and take on projects that I think can work.
I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.
I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.
I don't like definitions. I like four-hour movies.
I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!
I'm not defining my band by other people's music, but by my own.
In my younger days, I used to pick up sluts, and I don't mean that nastily. It's more a term of endearment, really, for girls who know how to speak their minds.
I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.
We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.
I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.
