So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.

I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.

You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.

The whole thing of this business is to retain your enthusiasm and, in a sense, retain your innocence and try to practice as much humility as possible.