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

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….

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….

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

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….

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in m….

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'm a veteran, and I come from a family of veterans and people who served in that war. And the stories that I heard were a hell of a lot different th….

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

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 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 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….

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….

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

You don't want to get too far ahead of the audience and you don't want the audience to be ahead of you. So, that balance is difficult and it takes 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….

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….

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 ….

You never know what you have until you put it in front of an audience. That's the truth. That's the truth of filmmaking and that's why you make movie….