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The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

It's difficult for one filmmaker to criticize another. That's a job best left to critics.

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

If David Lynch wants me to audition I will do it. But a young filmmaker, no. I won't.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

I'm not the greatest reader. I feel like I have a bit of dyslexia or something, and that's probably why I became a filmmaker. I have the need to communicate, the need to tell stories; and the need to understand stories led me to movies.

I had had no aspirations to be a filmmaker or a writer.

In 'Blood Work,' they made choices I wouldn't have made, but I'm not a filmmaker. I took the money, and they told the story.

When you get an opportunity to work in good films like 'Raazi,' it boosts your confidence to know that good filmmakers are willing to work with you.

I feel lucky to be able to work with such great filmmakers on such wonderful stories.

Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking.

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

Films always make everyone else rich save the author.

It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.

I generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form.

People wanted more advice. So I finally thought I could totally put this advice into a book.

You want to play in finals, and they don't come much bigger than the Champions League final.

KeyArena was rocking, loud. The Finals in '96, I thought that was loud.

Let me tell you, one of the most proud aspects of my career was buying Indymac during the financial crisis.

An AIG failure would have been devastating to the financial system and to the economy.

There were other propositions, even better financially, but I chose Olympiakos because of the Champions League.

Content financing is a difficult beast no matter what era of Hollywood we're talking about.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.