There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

I am a Justin Timberlake fan.

Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper to my cameraman, I like to whisper to my actors, and whoever else I've gotten to whisper to.

If you can't count on your heart having some kind of unified response, you can't count on anything. You use your heart as a barometer for your movie's completeness.

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.

The first instinct is love.