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

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.

A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene.

You got to deal with reviews the same way you deal with your views, which I a long time ago stopped reading because the point is if you believe the good ones you have to believe the bad ones. It's kind of all or nothing.

I always have a plan, but then I'm always ready to throw the plan out, and everyone's ready to make a radical left turn if necessary.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.