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.

I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become.

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.

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 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.

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.

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