I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries!

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

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.

I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be.

It's better to find a stunt person who can act. It's easier to do that than to find an actor who can do a stunt.

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.