I'm Totally Anti-commercialism.

How Do You Shoot A 150-day Movie? You Shoot It One Day At A Time.

It's A Bad Day When You Don't Get The Work Done That You Need To Get Done Or You Don't Get It Done To The Satisfaction.

If I See A Movie For The First Time On Dvd, I Watch It All The Way Through, The Lights Are Down, I Don't Pick Up The Phone. The Third Or Fourth Time You See A Movie, Sometimes You Just Have Them On And You Check In Every Once In A While With Things That You Liked. I Think It's A Different Expectations From That Environment.

When You Cast Somebody You Cast Them Not Only For... I Look For An Inherent Kind Of Quality. You Are Going To Be Shooting 14 Hour Days And You Are Going To Be Tired. You Are Going To Not Necessarily Be Able To Conjure Armor Or A Façade Every Single Moment.

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.