What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

No one should feel sorry for a successful screenwriter.

Different people work different ways.

I love IMAX when it works right.

I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.