It's so dense, every single image has so many things going on.

I don't have to do emails, I don't have to protect myself about anything, I don't have any chain of command. My job is just to try and give everybody the tools that they need to express themselves.

It has absolutely no meaning to me to be an executive producer on a film that I have nothing to do with except come to the wrap party or the premiere on; it's just meaningless.

Every single frame, every single shot in the movie, has a digital effect.

It's easy to be a backseat driver. It's even easier to be a backseat driver when you're not even in the same car.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.

You have to be producing to be able to be called a producer.

The only way I can stop people from stealing is also not to steal myself, and it's one of the most difficult things.

The average film has eight or ten producers on it. That is just in a world that would be unthinkable to me, because to me, to really be a producer of a film, you have to be a line producer.

Producers don't really publicize movies.

One of the great things is, you're never a producer unless you're making a movie.

John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on.

What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business

A masterpiece does not unfurl its wings immediately. It takes time. It will fly when it is ready.

Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.

I go with the most interesting thing that comes my way,I don't expect it to come from India to tell you the truth, but if it did, fine by me.

One in eight plant species face extinction.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I then discovered the Pop Art of Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Peter Max. I was inspired that these fun and colourful images could be presented seriously on canvas.

In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.

You were about five feet short of a ten feet jump?