If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

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 feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

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.

If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble.

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like.