I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of coverage and excessive takes and don't keep things moving or constantly cutting.

I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.

I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.

This is the funny thing about Skype. No one is really looking into the camera. People always looking down because they're looking at the image. You wish the camera was there in the center.

If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

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.