In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it’s all up to you.

It’s become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

You don’t really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I’ve been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can’t really compete on a studio level.

I’ve always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can’t forget the audience.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it’s not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

I didn’t have a normal background – I was completely demented from a very early age!

It’s very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there’s nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.

I hate tests. It’s a really lousy way to judge a person’s ability.