I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

I've tried to get better about weighing what I think the accessibility of an idea is against the cost of executing it. I've tried to be smarter about that, because if you're not smart about that, you're going to be unemployed. But I'm still mystified about what works for people. And I'm not talking about my movies, I'm talking in general. I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too.

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

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.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

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.

Once I had a potentially heart attack-inducing eight double espressos in one day. I think my assistant secretly swaps my coffees for decaf as she doesn't want me to die of caffeine overdose.