The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what I'm after, what I'm chasing, and what I'm trying to construct.

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.

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

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is about making it better.

The worst part of directing is always seeing the first assembly. It's devastating. It really is. It's like going into the delivery room and you can't wait to see your baby, and it's a crocodile.

When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell is over.

You don't want to get too far ahead of the audience and you don't want the audience to be ahead of you. So, that balance is difficult and it takes a lot of work and tuning in the edit, to get the right balance.