You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

The age doesn't really matter to me as it seems to matter to other people. A lot of people think that youth or age is the total sum of your knowledge about anything, and it's absolutely untrue. I think I might have even known more five years ago than I do now.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

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

I had to get over my fear of running through the world naked and learn to say 'take me or leave me.'

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.