I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

If you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered.

You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before they ever sit down to watch the movie. So you have to kind of modulate what can I do to give marketing enough material but that I can still withhold certain things so that it's fresh and surprising for the audience coming to see the movie.

The biggest challenge is not coming up with the stunt, the biggest challenge is designing a sequence around it that sort of justifies its existence.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.