If you're not flying people around on wires, and you're only allowing them to do things that people can really do, it can't go on for very long, because eventually somebody gets the drop on the other person and then it's over.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

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

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

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

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

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.