I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.

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

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

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

I try to use other songs or bands as reference points - it seems like the easiest way to get across what are really differences of taste or opinion. If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.

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.