A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.

George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again.

I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'