I want to be around for a long time singing and making albums and movies.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

For me relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero.

Usually when you see females in movies they feel like they have these metallic structures around them they are caged in by male energy.

I've been on so many movies. Generally I haven't gotten to be on the ground level. As of two years ago in 'Dear John ' I got to really be on the ground floor. I wasn't a producer. I felt like I put the work in and I did have a lot of sway on what got fixed reshoots so on and so forth. It felt really good.

Before I'd written movies I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that.

All my life I have loved and been inspired by French cinema and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

Now if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French based upon movies rumors recent headlines unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

I like to direct movies but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.