Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur.

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.