If anything, the films that succeeded this summer and the films that failed have emboldened me and filmmakers who share my sensibility that we don't want to just churn out the same old thing,

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God looking down at the characters.

Distributors and filmmakers like me can see their films with real human beings.

I made all these films and I had all kinds of great experiences. I worked with the great filmmakers and it was a very exciting life.

I'm making films for an audience out there and a very tiny fraction of them are would-be filmmakers. But let's speak of them-the would-be filmmakers, the tiny fraction. I've witnessed many times when I've showed films and was present at a screening that exactly those people feel very much encouraged by what I'm doing.