My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.

Whenever you experiment with something, it's very easy to take the emotion out of it. And going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

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.

There's a big difference between a movie about relationships and a movie in which people talk about relationships. It seems like a lot of people have confused the two.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport.