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.

I just find it annoying that in these sequences [of the fight scenes], traditionally, there's music trying to pump you up. I don't like that, personally, as an audience member. This just reflects my taste.

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

If you're not flying people around on wires, and you're only allowing them to do things that people can really do, it can't go on for very long, because eventually somebody gets the drop on the other person and then it's over.

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

All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.