The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every single person arguing a righteous side of the argument. That makes interesting drama.

I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."

I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

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.

Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.