I want a movie to be satisfying for an audience. That sense of having to get it done, no matter what cost, is what I like.

You've always got to be smart enough to go 'Well they're going to have to bring some of their own in'. We don't want to be a monopoly where we get shoved out, it has to be symbiotic.

Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.

When you're working with friends, unless the material is right, our friendship could end.

I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.

Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it?

I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.