I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

I learn the most from making my own mistakes.

I like characters who are contradictory.

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

I have been told it is a smart person who learns from their mistakes and a smarter person who learns from the mistakes of others; I have done both, does that make me a genius…?

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.