If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.

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

Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I don't have one style that I want to take from movie to movie.

I'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.

I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about.

Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.

Men tend to define themselves by what they do, and so if you're dealing with a character who's trying to figure that out, or multiple characters, then there's something there for guys, too.