Sometimes The People We Meet Change Us

I've Consciously Taken On Material That's A Bit Too Much For Me But Not An Overreach. The First Movie, Just About Performances. 'the Town,' I Learned How To Work Broader Material, Develop Tension, Direct Bigger Scenes, Action Sequences. 'argo,' I Experimented With Film Stock, Widened The Scope Of My Geography.

Marriage Hasn't Been My Thing. But Gay People, Knock Yourselves Out!

Every Single Director-actor I Talked To, From Warren Beatty To Clint Eastwood To George Clooney, Said The Biggest Mistake They Made Is Not Shooting Enough Footage Of Themselves.

I Learned That As A Director, You're Around All These Talented People, So You Have This Window That All These Really Good Ideas Can Come In To Help Your Movie, So You're Crazy To Close Them. You Need To Be Inspiring People, Engaging People. There Are Lots Of People Who Are Really Good At Their Jobs But Might Not Know Or Feel Like They Want To Come Up To People And Get Them To Participate And Want To Do Their Best.

We Wanted To Show People What It Was Like In One Of Those Neighbourhoods That They Would Never Have Access To, In Bars That They Would Be Too Scared To Go Into, And A World That They Would Never Get To See. All Of That Is Something Really Unusual And Rare And Kind Of Fascinating. And The Only Way To Do That And To Make It Really Worthwhile Was That It Had To Be Authentic. We Dedicated A Lot Of Time And Energy To Making That Right And Real. So We Found Basically The Worst Locations That We Could.