The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

It's never been about making money.

I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.