Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies.

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.

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.