I Always Say Everyone Was Lucky Enough

Human Beings Are Amazing At Finding Ways To Waste Their Own Time.

Directing Ain't About Drawing A Neat Little Picture And Showing It To The Cameraman. I Didn't Want To Go To Film School. I Didn't Know What The Point Was. The Fact Is, You Don't Know What Directing Is Until The Sun Is Setting And You've Got To Get Five Shots And You're Only Going To Get Two.

If I Could Be Anyone, It Would Be Brad Pitt.

Our Pavlovian Response To Movies Has Gotten To Its Lowest Point Ever. You Look At A Lot Of Movies That Are Successful And A Lot Of Movies That Studios Hold Up As Examples And You Go, 'my God, That Isn't Even A Story. It Isn't Even Two Acts. It's Eight Set Pieces Drawn Out With Slow Motion.' The Difficulty For Me Was That You Had To Hope That People Were Interested In This Kind Of A Story.

For A Number Of Years, I'd Been Around The Kind Of People Who Financed Movies And The Kind Of People Who Are There To Make The Deals For Movies. But I'd Always Had This Naive Idea That Everybody Wants To Make Movies As Good As They Can Be, Which Is Stupid.