I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.

I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.

Billy Wilder once told me, 'Make 'em personal,' ... 'But make 'em for the people.'

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.

Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.