I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out.

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.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed.

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

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

Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable.