Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

Some of my favorite photos from the old days are of people who maybe didn't know how to smile. Maybe smiling in photos wasn't an accepted form of behavior back then. But the big eyes and the oversized dolls that people are carrying, and it's something about their hair - the anachronisms of these photos are really what creep me out.

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.