The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.

It's not like you get up in the morning on the first day of shooting and say, 'I'm so smart today I'm going to determine every choice I make from now until a year and a half from now.' So it changes. You gain insights. The movie bucks you.

The screenplay is a great document because it makes you have many discussions prior to actually being on the floor.

The choice that you really have is that you can go and work for TV which is so badly paid that you have to really churn them out which I think probably helps you develop certain muscles. I'm not sure though that you really want to have those muscles as a director.

I think it's never mono-causal why you fall in love with something that you want to do.

I'm very eclectic in terms of what I like, what I read, what I watch, my own consumer behavior.

I think you either have chemistry or you don't. If you could create chemistry in the editing room then there would be no films without chemistry, obviously, because there are a lot of good editors out there who'd be able to take care of that then if that's how it really worked.