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

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.

If you're sitting around thinking what other people think about your work, you'll just become paralysed.

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you. So it does sometimes turn into a situation where you're saying to the person you're working with, "Well, what do you want?" But then there are other times when I work with people and they'll turn to me and say, "How do you want to do this?" And that's actually when I work best.

I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace.

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.

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