I've tried to get better about weighing what I think the accessibility of an idea is against the cost of executing it. I've tried to be smarter about that, because if you're not smart about that, you're going to be unemployed. But I'm still mystified about what works for people. And I'm not talking about my movies, I'm talking in general. I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too.

Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.

What's great about things like Kickstarter is that it enables me, finally, and without any bad feeling at all, when people come up to me now saying, "I want to do this." I can just go, "There are no excuses anymore."

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

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

I'm not a snob. If I feel like there's a star that's the best person for that role, then that's who I get.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.