The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes.

When you get a certain level of resources, and you want things a certain way, I find it difficult to get too belligerent because it's not my money.In this case it is. It’s a lot easier to stand your ground and say “I want it like this” when you know it’s your money you’re spending.

It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.

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

Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.

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.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.