You would own the negative after seven years. The company would actually own the film. It's kind of a financial and moral thing about owning your own creative work.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.

[asked which wine he would drink to celebrate] We're having some tequila.

To be fair-not that I really care about being fair to anyone, ever-but to be fair, I'm sure that same ratio of bad films to good probably exists in every studio.