As We Say In The Sewer, Time

There Are Things You Do For The Fun Of Doing Them Or To Work Or To Hang With Certain People. But The Projects That I've Invested Myself In And Cared About Most Deeply Have Absolutely Been Activated By A Desire To Chase Something That I Relate To, Or That I See As Having The Potential To Speak To Someone Else Directly.

If You Try To Make Interesting Films, You're Going To Be Disappointed Most Of The Time. I Choose Just Not To Look At It That Way. I Don't Look At American History X As A Failure, Or Fight Club As A Failure, Or 25th Hour As A Failure, Or Larry Flynt As A Failure, Or Any Of The Movies That I Care About That I've Made That Were Not Immediately Successful. I'll Stand With Those Movies Any Day Over 90 Percent Of The Movies That Came Out At The Same Time That Made A Hundred Million Dollars

You Can Do Things In Twin Scenes Now You Couldn't Before. You Can Implement Actual Moving Cameras.

I Tend To Have A Kind Of Tunnel Vision When I'm Looking At An Individual Piece.

I Had A Huge Advantage With Edward Norton Because He's Directed A Movie Before, So One Thing He Appreciates Is How Hard My Job Is, He's Very Sensitive To That. We Actually Ended Up Finishing "leaves Of Grass" A Day Early.