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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.