I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing.

Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.

I always get role models, people from real life who've lived the lives of the characters, and talk it through together, me, them and the actor, a lot. That helps. We certainly have our disagreements. But in the end we trust each other.

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.