...choosing offbeat projects (like 1999's commercially disappointing The Astronaut's Wife)
''Maybe I'm a dummy. But I don't worry that a lot of my films haven't had big results at the box office, because I'm not a businessman. Believe me, I would love for one of my movies to be accepted by a wide audience, but I'm not going to do a film just because it's going to do that.'' (1999)