As soon as the actor steps into the role, you probably can cut 50% of the lines because there's a person there now. And what a person does with their eyes, with their mouth, with their hands, the way they walk into a room, you can probably cut half the scene.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

I think everybody has a little bit of an asshole inside of them.

A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.