Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It’s still making films, but it’s a different job. When you’re the director, you kinda do all the work. I’m actually going tonight to check the prints of my movie even though the premiere’s tomorrow night.

You’ve got to think about how to do things for the right price. You have to shoot in different places to be creative and get tax rebates.

I’m not tied to budgets. I’m tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it’s going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

I’m not going to turn down an Oscar, but I’m not strategizing for one.

I love ‘Guitar Hero,’ and I think it’s a part of pop culture.

You can’t show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

I’m a laugher and a lover of comedy.

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It’s still making films, but it’s a different job.

I’ve been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.