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.

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.

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

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.

I've worked on really big budget movies as a designer - 'Vanilla Sky,' 'Three Kings;' I've been in that world, and you can just see people get nervous.