I Am The Luckiest Filmmaker I Know.

When I Go Into The Stores, I Pet The Saddles. Until Security Comes And Takes Me Away.

By The First Week Of Shooting, You Know Exactly Where Your Film Is Heading Based On The Psychology Of Your Director.

I Don't Know If You've Ever Seen Some Of The Sidney Lumet Movies, Like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] Or Network [1976]. They're Real Events That Happen In Real Time, And There Are All Of These Different Characters Experiencing The Same Thing In Different Parts Of The Movie ... I Am So Bad At Explaining My Films. But It's In The World Of Finance And The World Of Media, And How They Connect. It Was A Big Undertaking. A Big, Mainstream Movie, Which Stars Julia Roberts And George Clooney. But For Me, It's Really Just A Small Story About Character And People.

I Love European Movies And I Kind Of Grew Up On European Films.

I Think I Missed All Of The Wonderful Things ... I Missed The Control That You Have In Film, And I Missed Getting It Right, Really Getting It Right, The Way You Hope People Will See It. All Of The Things That People Love About Theater - The Fact That It Changes Every Night And That It's So Spontaneous - All Of Those Things Just Frighten Me.