Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.

The internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we're part of the medium. The scary thing is, we'll lose our right to privacy. An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.

All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.