You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

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

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

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

You’ll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs. By movies as product. Movie studios use that term “product” all the time. Product? You mean you have a lot of stories? No, we have a lot of product. You have stories.

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.