The problem is when you get forced to use ideas that aren't good. When I can filter the ideas and use the best of them, I am happy to collaborate.

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

It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

If people don't like the trailer, then blame it on the people who made the trailer.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

Since I was a kid, I've liked to see how things are done. Sometimes when you see how things are done, it's like watching a 'making of' within the story. You see the physical aspect, the construction of things.