I Prefer Writing Originals.

I Have Written A Bunch Of Scripts That Have Not Gotten Produced, Much More So Early In My Career Than Later.

What You Need To Know To Direct A Movie Is [of] Such Great Variety. I've Worked With People Who Were Maestros, Who Know Everything. I've Worked With People Who Were Empty And Lost, Who Had No Clue What They Were Doing. You Wouldn't Hire Them To Paint Your Apartment. And Then There's Everything In-between. There's No List Of Skills You Have To Have To Sit In That Chair.

You Just Try To Find Something That Interests You, And Particular Something That Interests You That's Gonna Consume You The Way That These Big Movies Just Really Eat You Up.

Different People Work Different Ways.

I Like Emotions, But I Really Don't Like Sentimentality, And I Don't Like When Things Break Their Spell.