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

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

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

I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.

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