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.

I thought I could rely on the plot in the novel and fill in the colour between the lines, but I made a mistake with that assumption. It was really, really hard because you pull a few things apart and then you realise how everything relies on everything else and it can all fall apart.

They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby!

I think when you have children, it just changes your worldview.

I like to shoot until we have a relaxed environment on the set, and I try to schedule that.

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.

A lot of my shows in the past have been more theatrical than others, but you really get the bug for it when you direct on stage.