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.

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

Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

It's based not only on what it played like in the theater, but it's also knowing that certain things play differently in a home theater environment. You have different expectations when you're sitting with 700 people than when you're sitting with your friends or family. It's just a different world.

I was always interested in films that scar.

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.