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

Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.

Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows.

We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.