If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

As a filmmaker, "no" is not in my vocabulary. I've got to figure out a way.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.