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.

The traditional models for success are just also disappearing.

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.

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

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

I'm a grinder. I'll beat you because I will not sleep.

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.