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

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.

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

I learned just to be a belligerent asshole, which was really: "You have to get what you need to get out of it." You have to fight for things you believe in, and you have to be smart about how you position it so that you don't just become white noise.

I always say everyone was lucky enough to be in a Cate Blanchett movie.

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

I want stuff to play as wide as possible. I want to be able to see... if I could play the whole thing in a master and it could be compelling enough, that'd be great. Then it simplifies my day, it simplifies life for the actors when you could just focus on that. But by the same token I don't want to be forced into coverage. So I want it to be as good from every angle and I need to get as many of the kind of shadings that I want from every angle.