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'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.

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

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.

I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.