In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of reveal themselves in that process.

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.

It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper.

I think great acting is about inhabiting a skin and transforming yourself.

For me, I like to show what guys are like when no one is looking and how we really are, and that we can be emotional and have these emotional lives. I think it would be great to do a film where we see some females and what's going on there when we're not around.