I bristle a little when the argument for film gets put into the nostalgia ghetto. Film is still the highest quality and best-looking image capture medium available. I don't think it always will be. The digital image will get better, and it will eventually surpass the quality of the film image, but it isn't there yet.

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.

Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.

Game of Thrones' is just incredible, what they pull off every week.

When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god this is awful and I've wasted everyone's time and money and will be revealed as a fraud" feeling can hit.

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.