If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way..

The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way..

As for the Folsom Prison show, ... would anybody have the guts to do that show now 50 Cent, maybe I think the whole idea of even playing to a crowd o….

What I'm really focused on is the majesty of the best films I see are films that don't panhandle for an extra laugh later, but actually deliver the g….

For me, making a lot of dramas on one side it's a different sort of challenge, and on the other, it's not a challenge at all, meaning that my goal is….

I'm really very lucky. I get to do an awful lot. I've been able to make an incredibly wide range of movies and work with an incredible array of peopl….

The idea of devoting two years of my life to making a corporate product that looks and smells and tastes like a lot of other things out there with ju….

You see the assets of your actors and you see their strengths and you try to play into them. It's like I feel part of my job is as a coach. I'm putti….

Having the kind of infinite loop of what a digital stream is - you can shoot for a long time without cutting - allows me to sometimes perform really ….

One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful..

I love comic books. Since I was a kid, I've collected them..

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys….

A fantasy film is often improved by some kind of human reality..

Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time..

There's a level of immersion that is perfect and there's a level that, for my taste, starts to actually exceed what the screen can provide. At that p….

The one aspect I do love about digital is I love to push performance and I love to roll and roll and keep doing takes in a single performance..

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find..

My own sense and taste in 3D films has been I don't really like it when it feels like it's a gimmick and it's coming at me, it's flying at me..

Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it woul….

I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all t….

We're all going to hell for the songs we sing..