If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.