Anytime you've got something that can take you into the political realm then you've opened up the conversation a lot.

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

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

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

If you're not flying people around on wires, and you're only allowing them to do things that people can really do, it can't go on for very long, because eventually somebody gets the drop on the other person and then it's over.

I've tried to get better about weighing what I think the accessibility of an idea is against the cost of executing it. I've tried to be smarter about that, because if you're not smart about that, you're going to be unemployed. But I'm still mystified about what works for people. And I'm not talking about my movies, I'm talking in general. I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too.

You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.