Hope Is Not A Strategy. Luck Is

I Tried [being A Mogul]. It Bores Me. I Don't Really Want To Produce Other People's Movies. Because They're Either Grown-up Filmmakers Like Steven Soderbergh Or Kathryn Bigelow That Didn't Really Need Me - And I've Produced Both Of Them. It's Fun To Sit Around With Them And Be Collegial, But They Don't Need Me. They Can Make The Film Without Me. I Make My Own Stuff. There Are Tons And Tons Of Other Things I'm Interested In That Have Nothing To Do With Movies Or Are Documentary Projects.

The Magic Doesn't Come From Within The Director's Mind, It Comes From Within The Hearts Of The Actors.

If You Faced A Long Hungry Period With Nothing Between You And Starvation But A Bit Of Barley And A Pig, You'd Be Better Off Turning The Barley Into Beer And Letting The Pig Starve.

The Film Industry Is About Saying 'no' To People, And Inherently You Cannot Take 'no' For An Answer.

If You Wait Until The Right Time To Have A Child You'll Die Childless, And I Think Film Making Is Very Much The Same Thing. You Just Have To Take The Plunge And Just Start Shooting Something Even If It's Bad.