First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.

If I'm intimidated, I shouldn't be directing a movie. I gotta treat 'em as characters, not as stars. It's hard to not treat Marlon Brando as a legend, a star, it's difficult not to treat Robert De Niro as a star, but that had to go away very fast after I knew them, because I had to work with them. I'm the director, I'm the boss. They're looking to me for guidance.

I've done TV for tons and tons of years, so I'm not crazy about doing more TV, but with films, all I want to do are different projects that aren't all the same.

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.