The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

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

I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.

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

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

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