You'd much rather act with a pal, someone you know really well. That way, you can cut all the niceties and go right to insulting each other.

Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.

Directing is a huge amount of work with very little payoff, and a quarter of the money, and nine times more time spent.

I don't know if it's fair to say that it's a bad time for movies. It seems to me that throughout the entire history of filmmaking, every year there have been about two really wonderful movies, about 10 others that are pretty good, and a whole pile of garbage.

One of the things I did early on in film was over-enunciate and talk too loud.

You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.

I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.