Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work of art in itself, and when it's a great book I feel as a director or a writer that I have a responsibility to rise to the level of the original. It makes me try to reach higher.

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

The selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, 'Hello, this is me.'

I become kind of obsessive about research.