While you're making the film and working with the actors, if you want to have a little room to breathe and experiment and play, it grows, and you want that to happen. It's not enough to just shoot the script. You've gotta come up with new inspiration, as you shoot it. There's gotta be room for that and time for that, so it grows.

You hear people say that there's too much CG in movies today, but CG is what allows me to take a green-painted wall in a studio and make it disappear, and then put 100 miles of landscape in. CG, in the right hands, can be a marvelous tool.

Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?

When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.