I Don't Know Why People Think Child

The Movies I Made When I Was 14 Or 15, I Have A Hard Time Looking At Those. Those Were The Awkward Years. I Don't Know If Anybody Can Look At Something They Did When They Were 14 And Not Wince.

If I Make Two Movies My Entire Life, And They're Two Movies That - Whether They Make A Lot Of Money Or Two People Go To See Them - They Speak Of Me, Then I Consider Them Incredibly Successful. I Don't Need To Be Steven Spielberg.

By The First Week Of Shooting, You Know Exactly Where Your Film Is Heading Based On The Psychology Of Your Director.

There's Absolutely No Sort Of Acknowledgment Or Reward For This - Except For The Intangible Of My Kids Growing Up To Be Wonderful People.

I Don't Know If You've Ever Seen Some Of The Sidney Lumet Movies, Like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] Or Network [1976]. They're Real Events That Happen In Real Time, And There Are All Of These Different Characters Experiencing The Same Thing In Different Parts Of The Movie ... I Am So Bad At Explaining My Films. But It's In The World Of Finance And The World Of Media, And How They Connect. It Was A Big Undertaking. A Big, Mainstream Movie, Which Stars Julia Roberts And George Clooney. But For Me, It's Really Just A Small Story About Character And People.