I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.

You'll see a consistent, like the tea, the tea bags you saw there-you'll see a consistent-did you see the cafeteria? I mean the diner?

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

Sometimes violence in a very real way is much faster and more impactful because it feels real and you're watching it happen and you're watching your star do these things, so it's not like he's doing superhero moves.

I like making movies.

Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.