I Tend To Be Drawn More To

I Think About Art A Lot Only In Two Contexts. One Is Narrative... The Other Thing That I'm Interested In, Which Is Tangential, But Not Unrelated... All Art To Me Is About Problem Solving.

I've Begun To Believe More And More That Movies Are All About Transitions, That The Key To Making Good Movies Is To Pay Attention To The Transition Between Scenes. And Not Just How You Get From One Scene To The Next, But Where You Leave A Scene And Where You Come Into A New Scene. Those Are Some Of The Most Important Decisions That You Make. It Can Be The Difference Between A Movie That Works And A Movie That Doesn't.

When Things Go Right It's Hard To Figure Out Why, But When Things Go Wrong It's Really Easy.

I Have A Friend Whose Theory Is That You're From Wherever You Went To High School. I Think That's Mostly True.

My Experience Over The Years With Working With People Who Are Not Actors Or Not Trained Actors Is That You Have To Get To Know Them Well Enough To See What They Have That's Translatable Onto The Screen.