Human Beings Are Amazing At Finding Ways

Everything Seems Really Simple On Paper Until You Take A Camera Out Of The Box.

I Want Stuff To Play As Wide As Possible. I Want To Be Able To See... If I Could Play The Whole Thing In A Master And It Could Be Compelling Enough, That'd Be Great. Then It Simplifies My Day, It Simplifies Life For The Actors When You Could Just Focus On That. But By The Same Token I Don't Want To Be Forced Into Coverage. So I Want It To Be As Good From Every Angle And I Need To Get As Many Of The Kind Of Shadings That I Want From Every Angle.

Our Pavlovian Response To Movies Has Gotten To Its Lowest Point Ever. You Look At A Lot Of Movies That Are Successful And A Lot Of Movies That Studios Hold Up As Examples And You Go, 'my God, That Isn't Even A Story. It Isn't Even Two Acts. It's Eight Set Pieces Drawn Out With Slow Motion.' The Difficulty For Me Was That You Had To Hope That People Were Interested In This Kind Of A Story.

What You Learn From That First, And I Don't Call It 'trial By Fire,' I Call It 'baptism By Fire,' Is That You Are Going To Have To Take All Of The Responsibility, Because Basically When It Gets Right Down To It, You Are Going To Get All Of The Blame, So You Might As Well Have Made All Of The Decisions That Led To People Either Liking It Or Disliking It. There's Nothing Worse Than Hearing Somebody Say 'oh, You Made That Movie? I Thought That Movie Sucked,' And You Have To Agree With Them, You Know?

You Can’t Take Everything On. That’s Why When People Ask How Does This Film Fit Into My Oeuvre. I Say 'i Don’t Know. I Don’t Think In Those Terms’. If I Did, I Might Become Incapacitated By Fear . . . How Do You Eat A Whale? One Bite At A Time. How Do You Shoot A 150-day Movie? You Shoot It One Day At A Time.