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.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

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

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.

Hire the right people and get the hell out of the way.

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

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