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.

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

People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.

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

There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.

I'm always a little unnerved when I see a show that's set in the past that implies in any way that things were nicer then.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.