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Failure's Relative. I've Always Felt, Even Early On, If I Lose The Freedom To Fail, Something's Not Right About That. It's How You Treat Failure, Too. There's Something To Learn From It. I've Had Movies That Have Failed Colossally, So You Kind Of Analyze Your Failures: What Kind Of Failure Was It? A Failure Because It's Misunderstood By Others? A Failure Because You Misunderstood It Yourself?

My Movies Are Always Being Played On Television, I'm Very Well Known And All That Stuff - I Go All Over The World, I Have Access To Many Things, Many People, Many Places And It's Wonderful. But Now I'm At A Point Where...i Thought It Was Time To Show Some Of It, To Show Some Of My Feelings About Things And What I Preferred At The Time. I Prefer Them Still But Not To The Extent I Did At The Time.

I Never Saw Myself As A Director. It's Certainly A Second Language But Making Movies For 40 Years, You Pick Stuff Up. However, This Style Of Making Movies, This Documentary Style, Is Easier For Me Because I Gather A Lot Of Material And With An Editor, Write It On Screen. You Try To Write Based On What You Shot.

I Like Women Who Can Cook. That's First. Love Is Very Important, But You've Got To Have A Friend First - You Want To Finally Come To A Point Where You Say That The Women You're With Is Also Your Friend.

[ocean's Thirteen] Is A Great Group, And It Was An Opportunity To Work With Steven Soderbergh. But Mainly? It Was Shot In L.a. And I Want To Be Next To My Kids. So I've Been Doing Everything That Has To Do With Being Next To Them, Close To Them.