But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.

George Lazenby is no one's favorite James Bond, but for me the anonymity at the center of this lavish production only serves to reveal the Bond machine firing on all cylinders: superb editing and photography, incredible score, great setpieces. The most romantic in the series, and it actually has, of all things, a tragic ending.

I think the films Insomnia and Memento share all sorts of thematic concerns, such as the relationship between motivation and action, and the difficulty of reconciling your view of the story with the supposed objective view of that story.

People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.