You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do.

It's hard to hand a script to a director, there's no question about it. You've lived with these characters, you've started with a blank page, especially when it's an original work and something not based on a preexisting piece of material. But if you don't like it, write a novel.

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors.

Sometimes you go against what they say because you believe in it anyway.

It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure.