I Just Like Working With Smart People.

If You Try To Make Interesting Films, You're Going To Be Disappointed Most Of The Time. I Choose Just Not To Look At It That Way.

David Fincher Is Probably The Best Comprehensive Director In Terms Of Being A Manger Of A Process That Must Drive Forward. He Has Such Confident Command Of Cinema Language And Visual Language And Script And Performance. He Knows More About F-stops Than Any Cameraman, He Knows More About Lighting Than Any Gaffer, He Is A Wonderful Writer, And He Can Give You A Good Line Reading. Under Pressure, He Is The Kind Of Guy Who You Will Just Dive In With And Trust And Follow Because His Vision Is So Intense.

I Do Find Myself Drawn More To Pieces That I Feel Are Wrestling With The Way That We're Living Now, What We're All Going Through.

I Tend To Relate To A Character In Terms Of The Arc: What's Interesting Is Where He Starts Versus Where He Ends Up.

When You're Working On A Creative Thing, Everyone Has An Idea, And They're Pushing It. The First Time You Work With Anybody, You Have To Get Comfortable With The Way Another Person Pushes Hard For What They Want. Familiarity Breeds Contempt, People Say. But I've Found, For Creative Things, Familiarity Breeds Peace Of Mind, Because You Realize You Know Someone Better. You Trust Each Other. You Know Not To Take Things A Certain Way, Or A Wrong Way. You Get To Where You Don't Have To Waste Quite So Much Time With Diplomacy. Things Are A Little More Efficient.