Hollywood's Got Its Own Particular Environment.

The Capacity To Create [visual] Effects In The Computer Has Made The Job Easier, But It Has Also Introduced The Complexity That You Can With A Few More Keystrokes Generate Such A Busy Canvas That The Eye Doesn't Know Where To Go. You Lose Human Scale On An Event And You're Just Wowed By The Kinetics And The Visualization. But, Often In Those Cases I Feel You Lose Touch With The Human Characters And What It Is That They Would Feel And How They Might Feel, And That's Still The Most Important Part.

The Third Time You Say A Thing It Sounds Like A Lie.

I Think American Films Right Now Are Suffering From An Excess Of Scale. Lots Of Movies We're Seeing Now Are More Akin To Video Games Than Stories About Human Life And Relationships. Twelve- To 20-year-olds Are Maybe The Largest Economic Force In The Us Movie Business. I'm Not A Very Nostalgic Person - But I Enjoy A Good Story.

I Wanted To Live The Life, A Different Life. I Didn't Want To Go To The Same Place Every Day And See The Same People And Do The Same Job. I Wanted Interesting Challenges.

The Only Thing That I Have Done That Is Not Mitigated By Luck, Diminished By Good Fortune, Is That I Persisted, And Other People Gave Up.