I try not to read too much because what ends up happening is that you ignore the nice reviews and you just focus on the bad reviews. A negative lesso….

I have tremendous faith that there will be greater films to come..

I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours g….

Every single substitute teacher growing up could not pronounce my name, so whenever someone pauses, I'm like, "Oh, that's me.".

It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages and are ….

There are a lot of movies I would want to be a fly on the wall for. I would have loved to see the making of Jaws [1975], with all the fears and anxie….

Film still looks way better than digital..

I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is..

When you think about being a director, you think about writing stories, putting the camera in interesting places and directing the actors to get your….

They're always surprised with what I want to do and don't want to do. I think they're surprised I don't want to do robo-tech. I don't know, it's like….

If you think of most murders as being between people who know each other, it's very easy to figure out who the killer is. But when you have a murder ….

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14..

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it..

If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess..

When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again..

The only pressure is the pressure I put on myself, that's up to be I guess to mitigate that. I think there's always pressure that you make the right ….