I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.

All modesty aside, I think I'm good at reading scripts. The way I read a script is as fast as I can, all in one sitting, and I don't read many of the stage directions. I only read enough stage directions to let me know where I am, because they're always so verbose and mostly horseshit. So I only read the dialogue, which allows me to see the movie in my mind's eye in real time.

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.

It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.

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

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.