If you really like a movie these days, you don't watch it once, especially if you're a kid, because you have a different relationship with media. You….
I have a day job that's very odd. Most people, by the time they're 25, glom onto one kind of music and that's what they listen to for the rest of the….
If you look at Cinderhella, from a production design aspect, I tried to find an interesting, iconic character, having her face wrapped up in bandages….
I will say that I'm going to take full credit for this. I knew Josh [Hutcherson] was going to be a star. One of the things you do, as a music video d….
Even the way the kids react with media today is so completely different than what most movies have. We just wanted to make a movie that challenged th….
On a certain level, the film retains a cultural memory. It may be meaningless to some kids, but it doesn't matter. A lot of the '90s references will ….
I still have every record company sending every new, hot track to me, to do music videos, so I'm chained by the foot to pop culture. I still know wha….
The filmmaker should make it, and then the critic should interpret it, period. If the director goes in there and starts telling you exactly what to t….
I'm not interested in the director's commentary stuff. I think that stuff is really boring. And, if the director explains too much, it takes a certai….
You know that that thing is going to be as crisp and as clean, as many times as you want to watch it. So, I knew that the film was going to be watche….
Kids today are sold so much, by corporations and media and commercials and advertising and music videos, that I do. A lot of times, they retain that ….
I don't turn Britney Spears into a star. I have to spot that these people are going to be stars, in the future, and say, "Okay, these guys have cultu….
John Hughes made a certain type of high school movie, and then it stayed static for 30 years. The only thing that changed was that maybe it was found….
It's a fusion of almost everything, in the way that I think society today tends to take cultural memory. Because there's an internet, it's on there f….
When I see a kid in a movie theater texting, I think it's a failure of the movie. It's not a triumph of the Apple iPhone. It's a failure of Warner Br….
I'm imagining there's a particular audience out there that's younger and older, too. It works on two levels. Do they exist? I don't know. I had to ma….
I don't think the film is going to work for everybody, period. It wasn't meant to be done for everybody. I didn't four quadrant this movie, like Holl….
