There’s one great script that hit my desk that I didn’t change at all, and that was True Romance.
I think we’re lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we’re doing.
Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints – they’re equally satisfying, but in different ways.
I’m trying to use the camera to get into people’s heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.
A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
I thought that subtitles are boring because they’re there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.
The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It’s the fear of failing, the loss of face and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.
The real world is where I get to educate and entertain myself. I go and touch the real world and touch real people. That’s my way into movies.