The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

I think happy and hope is more hopeful when you acknowledge that there's awful things too.

We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad think he should have a helmet on. I don't think they should have a helmet on. They should break their leg and have an imagination. Otherwise, we're going to have a nation of accountants.

Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about human beings.