Hollywood's Got Its Own Particular Environment.

The Trick Of This Thing And The Beauty Of This Thing Is That It's A Cowboy Movie First And Then Stuff Happens. Even After Stuff Happens It Doesn't Change - It Hasn't Suddenly Changed Into Another Kind Of Movie. It's Still A Cowboy Movie. And That's What's Incredible About It Because Nobody Has Done That Before, That's New Territory.

Directing Is Too Hard, It Takes Too Much Time, And It Doesn't Pay Very Well.

The Thing I Always Guard Against When I'm Talking To People I'm Working With About A Script Is That There's A Thing I Don't Like And It's Called "talk Story." It's When You're Talking About The Story; The Characters Are Tasked With Talking About The Story Instead Of Allowing The Audience To Experience The Story.

I Have The Ordinary Experience Of Having The Blender Bottom Come Off In My Room Upstairs. I Have The Ordinary Experience Of Being Anonymous When I'm In An Airplane Talking To Air-traffic Control, And They Don't Know Who They're Talking To. I Have A Lot Of Common Experiences. What's Important Is To Be Able To See Yourself, As Having Commonality With Other People And Not Determine, Because Of Your Good Luck, That Everybody Is Less Significant, Less Interesting, Less Important Than You Are.

[ Chadwick Boseman] Was Not A Baseball Player. He Spent, I Don't Know, Countless Hours, Many Months, Working Two Sessions A Day With Professional Pro Coaches To Develop The Baseball Skills That He Needed.