The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.

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

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

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.

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.

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well