I'm also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.

And I'm not anti-sequel, but I just feel like there are very few ideas that are meant to be continued.

I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.

I never think about the audience. If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.

A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

In storytelling, the audience actually wants to work for their meal, they just don't want to know that they're doing it.

I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?