You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

I think reviewers have become particularly venomous because, in a way, the power has been sucked from them. A 15-year-old can write a review on the Internet and it means as much as Roger Ebert's review, and that just makes Roger Ebert mad, so he comes out harder and stronger.

I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

I'm not worried about young people seeing an opportunity and taking advantage of it.

You set the tone on the set that you want to see in the film.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.