Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. You don't want to work with people who don't care or who are acting out some neurotic, crazy thesis on the set.

I don’t get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.

Every set up that you do, everything is precisely modulated and raised and lowered.”

The older you get, the more you know about certain things.

I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of.

When I think of a good restaurant, it's where the food has been consistent; there's always a consistency.

When you make a movie, everyone should leave their own personal problems at home. When they start bringing those to set, filming can be very difficult... You don't need any extra drama. Put the drama into the story, in the characters.