A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.

All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.

There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.

Never had a cup of coffee in my life. Dr Pepper is my caffeine delivery system of choice.

I've begun to believe more and more that movies are all about transitions, that the key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes. And not just how you get from one scene to the next, but where you leave a scene and where you come into a new scene. Those are some of the most important decisions that you make. It can be the difference between a movie that works and a movie that doesn't.

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.