There is something wonderful about coming to terms with time - that it is finite. You want to have as much joy in your life as possible, and you take responsibility for your own joy.
I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.
You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.
I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.