We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

I like to try to keep things as relaxed and easy as possible. I mean, movies generally attract a lot of people who like to cause fires, so they can later try to put them out. But I don't like that kind of thing.

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

There are days when you're in a good groove and the actor really understands the part and comes as prepared every day as you are and is so inside it. And then there's the day where, for whatever reason, it's just a harder slog. And I feel like those are the days where all the preparation and everything becomes more necessary because you have to find a third route there.