The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job
I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.
So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.
I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.
The world is full of beautiful girls. But they're not Angelina Jolie. She's fun, honest, intelligent, gorgeous and divinely talented. She brings a hell of a lot to the party.
A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.