I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies..

Everybody puts importance in money on a film set..

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect..

I write and film history; I don't make it..

The film makers are the true movie stars..

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for li….

I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn….

I love my horror films and they will always be very close to me..

I'd like to do an independent film..

I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come..

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous..

All my films are all my children..

I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film..

Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them..

Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich..

It's the best of the best. No film can hope to top it(Kubrick's 2001)..

Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film..

You can't print everything and that's not good for filmmaking, because you wanna have as many options as possible and print as much as you can, but i….

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's..

A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it..

I think that the success of the film is as much about it being something that families could share as anything else..