The goal is to align with your core group of collaborators, who understand your vision and aesthetics. I usually show them visual material of what I ….

It's important to keep up with technology, to constantly move with it. Striving to do so keeps me alert and creates a sense of fluidity but at the sa….

I thought it would be easy to cast a Bond girl, because there are so many beautiful women in this world. But not many of them can act. Their acting n….

I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear. I think the government - and people in general - create scenarios people fear, because ultim….

On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt lik….

Contrastingly to the new model of distribution, we shot Hand of God using the traditional format of film. I myself use very few apps and tend not to ….

You do a lot of press, but getting to talk and discuss movies with your peers is the best and most fulfilling part..

You can make a global film, which affects so many countries and affects sort of this worldwide epidemic, but it has, zombies are great metaphors for ….

One of the main reasons I wanted to work on 'World War Z' was because I'm a huge fan of the book, and I love the idea of taking a non-linear story an….

When you boil it down, it's all a visual expression. In a sense we are all storytellers through what we wear, who we want to be, how we want people t….

I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editin….

I think directing is part play, part work, not just all work, because I think you always have to play. I think that's ultimately why I got into makin….

I always wanted to do an action movie, not particularly Bond..

Some of the greatest directors never got an Oscar, like Kubrick, or Hitchcock. For me, personally, I think the body of work is more important than wi….

Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life..

When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work. There is a certain t….

All movements begin and end, and all have been inspired by others that have come before them. They evolve and then deconstruct again. There are very ….

I don't see myself as having made the transition. I aim to be more transient than transitional. Life is constantly changing, now at a rate faster tha….

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me..

I always think it's interesting to switch genres, because if I read a script and I know exactly how to manifest a story, I don't really want to do it….

The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world..