The beating heart of your story that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money.

Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.

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

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.

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

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

The movie I end up with is the movie I aspired to make.