I'm not in the business of warning people.
You're not RESPONSIBLE for somebody else's happiness. You're responsible for your own HAPPINESS.
I don't pick up people. This is the work of the police. If there's anybody with a case, it's the police, not me.
I don't think I can plate-spin, I've turned loads of things down because I just can't get the time to do it.
Their issues are not your issues.
I can't take responsibility for everyone's employment.
I cannot really be responsible for other people's thought processes.
I condition myself to believe that once the scene is done, once the movie is done, my job is done, and whatever happens after that is none of my business.
Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant
I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.
When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'
As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.
