When you go and you tell a studio and that it's an ensemble, that doesn't mean a lot to them. But, my hats off to Paramount and Warner Brothers, because when we told them that these were the kinds of people that we want to get, across the board, they were unbelieveably enthusiastic about it.

I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying "Oh, god, didn't we already do this 17 times?"

I want to make a movie that has enough impact that it's going to do what it needs to do. But I don't want to make a film that serial killers masturbate to.

I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.

If you read the good reviews you gotta read the bad reviews. I kind of think of it as like being a quarterback: you get way too much blame when it's bad and way too much credit when it's good.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

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