A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

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

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.

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

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

I have demons you can't even imagine.

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