I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

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.

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

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

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.

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

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.