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.

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.

Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it when you don't lead the bad guy off in cuffs.

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.

Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

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.