I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

It's a very American thing that everything has to be a business. Americans think... I like America, or I would not be here. There are great qualities to this country. But this sense that everything has to be a business is sometimes overwhelming.

There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.

I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.

In the '90s movies were so serious, and so stylistic and slick that I could not identify with them.

If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer.