You just have to do the thing that you feel is true to your vision, and then the audience will make the decision. But as soon as you feel like you're creating a product to just cater to what you think they want, it never works. It always feels phony. And the audience can tell immediately.

Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

If you have a lot of money, you know that you can make almost anything happen, but with a smaller budget you don't have a lot of time or too many resources, so you have to conceive things in a very simple manner and make them happen fast.

I'm definitely of the mindset of "I wouldn't want to be part of any group that would have me as a member."