You always go by your gut. That's the best you can do. You go by what you feel, and you say yes or no based on what it inspires in you.

As a director you have to be at 30,000 ft objectively looking at everything, wondering if you're making the right objective, emotional, story, character choices. As the writer, while you're asking all of those same questions, you're also forced by the nature of what writing is to be looking at everything under a microscope. That's the difference between the two jobs.

I do believe that people go to the movies - for one reason or another - they go to the movies to have an experience.

The thing for me, and I can only really judge this by what I respond to myself as an audience member, I really only respond to a movie if I'm interested in the people who are in it. It's really that simple. If I'm not, then it's all noise.

You always go by your gut. That's the best you can do. You go by what you feel, and you say yes or no based on what it inspires in you.

In fact, we actually listen to fans all the time. It's helpful because you want to get a sense of what people are looking for and what they disagree with.

An emotional story is an emotional story no matter how big or small it is.