I read a script or I read a project or I read a novel and I know that I'm going to spend two to three years of my life with that, exclusively. So you better like it. There better be an honorable, real need to make that movie.

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

I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.

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.

The day you step on the floor the meter is ticking and time is of the essence. You can't really afford to not know what you're doing. So I think the screenplay is a great tool to get everybody on the same page.

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

The movie doesn't do what you want it do. It just grows and then you have a movie at the end of it, hopefully.