Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three jobs, at the same time. They're difficult and pretentious and they're tormented artists.

It's always funny to me how your movie becomes no longer yours and people interpret it how they want and react how they want to react to it, and it's fun to kind of watch that happen.

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?

I like films that are about two hours not more.

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.