Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shap….

Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating ri….

Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time you read the script or see an ar….

I am an obsessive flyer, myself..

I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'what's your advice?' first I say, 'be born the son ….

Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the next day is ….

I'm a believer that people need to understand that filmmaking is not a perfect process for anybody. It is a process in which you find the film and th….

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and yout….

I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal que….

Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of movie that reminds u….

I'm really attracted to authors who take on really tricky material with a very open mind and take a subject matter that you wouldn't think would be a….

All the airports kind of feel and look the same now. Some are more beautiful, some are less beautiful, but for the most part you're going to find a S….

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel..

What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009..

I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am..

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible..

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama..

I find nice people kind of boring..

Too many people believe in that [Alfred] Hitchcock thing that he only shot exactly the shots he needed for the dialogue he needed and I think that's ….

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in..

When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive wh….