I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.

There are certain moments that you have to hit in a film, like when a character cries.

The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.

Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.

What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear friend of mine, Brad Mirman - and he ended up writing a beautiful script. I should've done that a lot earlier.

If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.

You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.