Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"

My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen. So you're constantly calibrating to play to their strengths. And the key is to never ask them to do things that are beyond their abilities or are really far away from who they are at their core.

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."

You can't change who you are, so I think that the only thing you can do is just never talk to people about stuff and then hope that maybe does something.

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.