There's a big difference between a movie about relationships and a movie in which people talk about relationships. It seems like a lot of people have confused the two.

I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves.

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.

There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be.

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

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

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.