My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.