I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.

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

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.

A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.

I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

I'm a big believer that if there's something you really want to do, don't walk away because of the deal.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.