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.

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

You got to deal with reviews the same way you deal with your views, which I a long time ago stopped reading because the point is if you believe the good ones you have to believe the bad ones. It's kind of all or nothing.

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

Every time you make something that somebody likes, your impulse is to remind them that if you hadn't made some of these other things that they hated, you wouldn't have been able to make the thing that they liked.

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something.