If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have to make sure you keep pushing the tempo.

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.

I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.

Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.

We tried to create a faster tempo in the second half, pushing the ball and making harder cuts in our half-court offense.