It was the hand of the tournament so far,

[Ferguson had a smaller chip stack, so Stillman was not risking his entire stack to stay in the hand. He stayed.] So we turn over the cards, ... and he's got pocket aces.

This is a very elaborate, high-end approach to this kind of project, ... three or four individuals in the community.

What normally happens when you write something is that for a certain amount of time you're absolutely convinced that it's the best thing in the world, that nobody else could possible have done it.

I think one of the saving illusions of the film business is everything seems like it's about to happen. It's always about to happen. It's only looking back that you see the wasteland.

What frustrates me a lot about some aspects of filmmaking is people thinking everyone is really dumb and that we have to make everything really obvious.