If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.

You know when somebody really knows what they're drawing from and you can feel it when you see the movie.

To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.

I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really hungry to prove anything to anybody, really. But when I stand outside myself and observe what I think are my strengths and weaknesses going into directing, it's what you just said, an affliction to organize moments.

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.