Occupation: Film Director Birth: August 9, 1968
I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world..
If you look at what Ben Affleck has gone on to do, as an actor and as a director, it's extraordinary. But if you look back at his career, I don't thi….
I love stories of female empowerment. I love stories of, "Hey, I'm an ordinary person." "No, you're not!" I love stories about not knowing you have i….
I do my best when I'm surrounded by women. I enjoyed that on the Charlie's Angels experience..
Sometimes you do things for personal reasons. I made a very personal movie in We Are Marshall. I was afraid of flying, for a long time, and that's a ….
The days of holding the audience captive to watching television at times that programmers tell them they have to watch it are coming to an end. It's ….
I enjoy that the most powerful person in Hollywood is indeed a Black woman in Oprah Winfrey. I'm hoping to just transcend beyond that..
If you look at Hollywood today, compared to five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago or 30 years ago, the change from moment to moment has always b….
It's always fun watching new actors and new voices come out..
For me, casting is critical. It's nice that social media and the passionate fans really corroborated choices and embraced kids to be characters..
Sometimes you do things that are fundamentally built to touch the world, and you feel good when you're successful doing it, and you're disappeared wh….
It's just a wonderful experience and it's fun when you make a film and people go to it to emote and in my picture you hear the audible sobbing and th….
You set up the look, the visual effects and the sets, and that's awesome, but I enjoy the casting most of all. That's where you really get to define ….
I don't really think about film or television or going directly to the internet. I just think about doing something that people are going to get exci….
It's really fun to create something that touches the world..
TV show is always challenging. It's challenging when you have all of the time and money in the world, and it's more challenging when you have less mo….
What's better these days, television or film? It's a dead heat. In fact, one could argue for television with more regularity..
I felt a particular attachment, naturally, to the Superman character and really dug deep, but at the same time, I am a passionate fan, be it Star War….
I just think we live in a world where people are so excited about the hot new thing, but you can't necessarily tell a story in one movie. With this p….
Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you get it wrong. You have tremendous hi….
It's a world creation show [Shadowhunters], so we've gotta work hard in the physical production capacity with the visual effects, the sets and everyt….