You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.

The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through different places and you're going to meet new people. At the same time, you have to not make it feel too obvious and too crudely episodic.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.