Jack [Nicholson] really knows about the camera. He's one of the directors who likes to play with the camera. He'll change things around, play with lighting, things like that. He'll even spend hours on the set-up for an insert shot. He's an interested person who gets involved in all the aspects of the films he is making.

If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong.

I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.

I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true.

You can't just stick with what you know, you have to evolve.

Technology has a great deal to do with it. The Panaflex camera was a big breakthrough when it came along; it changed everything, because now you could shoot from the perspective of a person riding in the backseat of a car.

I think that film is still an artform and it doesn't really matter if you're using a digital camera or a film camera.