If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.
“Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.”