I learned that as a director, you're around all these talented people, so you have this window that all these really good ideas can come in to help your movie, so you're crazy to close them. You need to be inspiring people, engaging people. There are lots of people who are really good at their jobs but might not know or feel like they want to come up to people and get them to participate and want to do their best.

No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.