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

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.

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

And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable.

I really, really love directing films.

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

But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.