There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them and root for them.

For big Hollywood movies, I'm on the more character-driven side of the equation. So, TV is a natural place for me to be because you've got no choice, but to be character-driven.

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did Go, so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio.

If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.