When you sit and watch the film with an audience, the focus groups and the cards and all of that is the less what you're worrying about. When you watch a film with an audience you see what is working and what's not working.

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.

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

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

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.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.