This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.

I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.