I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all.

Confidence is preparation in action.

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching that itch we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it. That's the philosophical side.

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.