You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

If I see a movie for the first time on DVD, I watch it all the way through, the lights are down, I don't pick up the phone. The third or fourth time you see a movie, sometimes you just have them on and you check in every once in a while with things that you liked. I think it's a different expectations from that environment.

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.

You can’t take everything on. That’s why when people ask how does this film fit into my oeuvre. I say 'I don’t know. I don’t think in those terms’. If I did, I might become incapacitated by fear . . . How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.