I think that while you're making the film it's important to just keep your eye on the ball and make the best movie you can, and then realize that it's out of your control.

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

Well the only reason to go back, for me and I think for anyone involved would be if we could do something truly spectacular. We've been talking about it for a couple years and there's always been this idea, a big idea, in the back of my head that we've been talking about.

Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.

I was always looking for a career that could combine my creative interests with my technical side, and it ends up directing films is the perfect combination.

The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.