It’s one thing to plan and imagine what you want on a film, but when you actually arrive and survey the scene, there’s a moment of, ‘Oh my God, what was I thinking?’
I know that when I’m writing, I always want to be directing.
My job is to tell the truth about what’s happening as best I can.
If a director is really a director, I think he’s interested in more than one thing.
The issue of assault in the military is something that they’ve gone to great lengths to try to deal with – and have not entirely dealt with yet.
People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.
I don’t think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you’re showing them the things you are showing them.
I like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed.
Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.
I’ve always believed that the stories and the performances are more important than I am. I think that the more invisible that my hand is, the more attention people can pay to the story and to those performances.
I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next.
The promise of an action movie to a certain audience is not a bad thing.
If you don’t know each other you spend time doing research together, having dinner, and talking about your lives. You try to find common ground. Once you’re shooting, the pressures are so intense; you really want to have a channel of communication open to you already.
A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake.
Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.
In my office, we were talking about the fact that they’d announced a remake of ‘A Star is Born,’ and I was bemoaning the idea of a fourth remake. And the young guys who work in my office were giving me blank looks, like, ‘What’s ‘A Star is Born?’
People tend not to dwell on drama.
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