As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.

As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't.

For a film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back to the same setting over and over.

Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.

Nowadays, to get a movie greenlit, you have to make an incredible effort.

If you decide to tell a kid that looks don't matter, she can prove you wrong every day. Because they see it everywhere. That is age-old, going back to the Greeks, but now we're bombarded nonstop.