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

There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be done editorially. You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.

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

Castro, without question, is one of the smartest politicians that's ever walked.

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

My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.

I recently decided that I'm not an originator. I'm a synthesist.