Even the scrutiny is good because it lets you know the world cares about your movie, and there is interest in it..

The most terrifying thing in my life is a blank sheet of paper..

The worst pressure is the pressure I put on myself..

When you put a movie together, you're continually screening it for yourself and you're screening it for other people. It's like a video game power me….

Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks..

Actors are like kids, they need to play a little bit. And that's the nature of their job, they need to shake off some energy and then you as the dire….

To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people..

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challeng….

You make a movie and it's like convincing people to go on an expedition with you. You think you know where it's going to end up, and you're hoping an….

I'm all about real drama, real performance, and real people, so my twist on this is: I'm creating a family, a brotherhood here. I'm creating a very r….

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same thing again and again in H….

The movie has to be going somewhere. Other than that, you want it to be entertaining, but people usually disagree on what entertaining is and everybo….

The movie on the screen is always going to be different from the movie in your head. How it makes you feel is what I'm after, what I'm chasing, and w….

I like to do stuff real and practical and in camera, as much as possible. I like old school filmmaking..

I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become..

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is a….

[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations….

My mantra is "Better is better"..

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been ….

You can't go back. Once it's done, it's done. I'm sure there will be things that I would love to change, in the future, but each movie is a snapshot ….

Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I ….