You Have The Power To Pause Stuff

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.

I Do Agree You Can't Just Make Movies Three Hours Long For No Apparent Reason. For A Romantic Comedy To Be Three Hours Long, That's Longer Than Most Marriages.

People Will Say, 'there Are A Million Ways To Shoot A Scene,' But I Don't Think So. I Think There Are Two, Maybe. And The Other One Is Wrong.

Filmmaking Isn’t If You Can Just Strap On A Camera Onto An Actor, And Steadicam, And Point It At Their Face, And Follow Them Through The Movie, That Is Not What Moviemaking Is, That Is Not What It’s About. It’s Not Just About Getting A Performance. It’s Also About The Psychology Of The Cinematic Moment, And The Psychology Of The Presentation Of That, Of That Window.

The Thing Is, That Great Actors Are Everywhere. They're Everywhere. They're Doing Good Parts On Television. They're Doing Television Commercials. They're Doing Local Theater. There Are So Few Opportunities.