[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.

As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different and you get kicked in the gut for it.

Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I believe personally that film has more.

Even the scrutiny is good because it lets you know the world cares about your movie, and there is interest in it.

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

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