I Probably Have Genius. But No Talent.

Everyone Knows The Phenomenon Of Trying To Hold Your Breath Underwater - How At First It's Alright And You Can Handle It, And Then As It Gets Closer And Closer To The Time When You Must Breathe, How Urgent The Need Becomes, The Lust And The Hunger To Breathe. And Then The Panic Sets In When You Begin To Think That You Won't Be Able To Breathe - And Finally, When You Take In Air And The Anxiety Subsides...that's What It's Like To Be A Vampire And Need Blood.

I Think Cinema, Movies, And Magic Have Always Been Closely Associated. The Very Earliest People Who Made Film Were Magicians.

In America, Even The Critics - Which Is A Pity - Tend To Genre-ize Things. They Have A Hard Time When Genres Get Mixed. They Want To Categorize Things. That's Why I Love Wes Anderson's Films And The Coen Brothers, Because You Don't Know What You're Going To Get, And Very Often You Get Something That You Don't Expect And That's Just What A Genre's Not Supposed To Do.

When Newspapers Started To Publish The Box Office Scores Of Movies, I Was Horrified. Those Results Are Totally Fake Because They Never Include The Promotion Budget.

People Feel The Worst Film I Made Was 'jack.' But To This Day, When I Get Checks From Old Movies I've Made, 'jack' Is One Of The Biggest Ones. No One Knows That. If People Hate The Movie, They Hate The Movie. I Just Wanted To Work With Robin Williams.