It's Based Not Only On What It

I Want People To Flourish. I Want Them To Walk Away From The Experience Going, "that's What It Should Be Like."

When You Go And You Tell A Studio And That It's An Ensemble, That Doesn't Mean A Lot To Them. But, My Hats Off To Paramount And Warner Brothers, Because When We Told Them That These Were The Kinds Of People That We Want To Get, Across The Board, They Were Unbelieveably Enthusiastic About It.

In Film, We Sculpt Time, We Sculpt Behavior And We Sculpt Light.

I Don't Think That Digital Technology Will Ever Take Away The Humanity Of Storytelling, Because Storytelling Is Entirely, In And Of Itself, A Wholly Human Concern.

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.