Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of the characters that are on the page.

I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It's nice when you can give someone that gift.

There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.