You Can't Get Good At Anything Unless

I'm Not Going To Spend Two Years Of My Life On Something That I'm Not Excited About.

People Like Chris Nolan Are Shooting Isolated Sequences In Imax. Those Cameras Are The Size Of A Volkswagen.

My Experience Over The Years With Working With People Who Are Not Actors Or Not Trained Actors Is That You Have To Get To Know Them Well Enough To See What They Have That's Translatable Onto The Screen. So You're Constantly Calibrating To Play To Their Strengths. And The Key Is To Never Ask Them To Do Things That Are Beyond Their Abilities Or Are Really Far Away From Who They Are At Their Core.

If You're Not Smart Enough To Know What Fidel Meant During The Cuban Revolution, That - When They Were On The Granma - Fidel Was Already A Rock Star In Cuba, And How Important That Was To The Indigenous Population, Then You're Not Paying Attention.

I've Never Been A Snob. It [movie] Is Just About Stories. And I've Never Felt Just Because It's A Big Screen And You Plop Down Your Eight Bucks That Gives It A Special Meaning. It's Just "are You Good At Telling A Story?"