On an animated movie I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action you have to be on the set every day.
Every film takes on its own life. I find it very interesting to show an audience some part of history that maybe they don't know.
It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.
It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.
I'm really a one-man band.
I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way with my personality than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.
The key to the success of any producer is to have a great team around.
I love the gangster genre but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script I'll do it.
I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.
I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.
I have created the life that I live... therefore I can create the life that I want.