We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

I'm not the one or two take guy, but I'm not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it's usually for some technical reasons.

The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release. Anything I think isn't working or might not work, I don't even put it in the director's cut. And usually it's the studio suggesting I put stuff back in, as opposed to studios saying, "You got to lose 40 minutes," they are always saying, "You've got to gain five minutes."

The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

It always happens at the end that you're always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.