It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.