People always ask why I don’t make independent movies. I do make independent movies – I just make them at Sony and Paramount.
When I’m watching somebody act, it’s a behavior editorial function – I look at someone act, and I might say, ‘I don’t believe him when he says that.’ I don’t know why I don’t believe him, probably because the people that I’ve met, they don’t act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.
For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there’s somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don’t know he has a refrigerator full of penises.
For a number of years, I’d been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I’d always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.
Oh, yeah, I love DVD’s. I don’t have what you’d call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time.
I’m totally anti-commercialism.
I was a disinterested student.
I like the idea of R-rated franchises.
There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of.
And I love shooting football.
How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
It’s based not only on what it played like in the theater, but it’s also knowing that certain things play differently in a home theater environment. You have different expectations when you’re sitting with 700 people than when you’re sitting with your friends or family. It’s just a different world.
We live in a silly time, and people go to the movies to see something that they haven’t seen before, and you have to promise to show them that. In a horrible way, you have to promise them a special effect.
Every child is different. Every child responds in a different way.
You have the power to pause stuff and you have the power to go to the bathroom. You can do whatever you want in your own home. It’s a much more relaxed thing. It’s more like a book, it seems to me. That’s kind of the way I watch movies.
I want people to surprise themselves. Instead of saying “Oh, god, didn’t we already do this 17 times?”
I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it’s very difficult to do what you do well.
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.
If you read the good reviews you gotta read the bad reviews. I kind of think of it as like being a quarterback: you get way too much blame when it’s bad and way too much credit when it’s good.
The simple-minded always look for something – if it’s not pornography, it’s DVDs or the Internet or video games – but I don’t think there’s anything inherently evil about Facebook.
I like people that like to work the way that I like to work.