Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

I love cats. I've had cats as pets.

Every filmmaker knows that when you make a book into a movie, the first thing you have to do is kill the book, unfortunately. You've got to recreate it.

I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.