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

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.

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

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

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.

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