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

I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.

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.

I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post.And it means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.

There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.

That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.

If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.