To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes.

Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.

You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.

[I watch] Fincher, Spielberg, Cameron, McTiernan. Just people who are good at staging action. I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.