I Don't Want To Make Films That

I'd Done Table Reads For My Own Screenplays, And I Always Thought They Were So Much Fun. Why Couldn't We Do These For Other Classic Screenplays And Bring Them To Life? You Can Experience Live Theater, Where You Get To See Plays Produced By Different Directors And Different Casts, But There's Really Nothing Like That For Movie Scripts.

Doesn't Every Generation Feel Like The One That's Coming Up Behind Them Doesn't Know How To Grow Up? I'm Not Sure If We're Progressively Getting Worse Or If Your Perspective Shifts.

I Used To Have A Group Called Bad-movie Saturday. Every Saturday, Six Of Us Would Go See The Worst Movie That Came Out Each Weekend. It'd Be Noon In Burbank. It Was Just A Running Commentary. All Executives - We Would Each Talk Through The Movie And Make Jokes.

Directing Is A Reactionary Job More Than A Creation Job. The Job Is To React Whether It's Moment One, The First Time You Read The Script Or See An Article Or Read A Book Or Notice Something Happen On The Street And Have An Idea For A Movie, And It Just Continues From There On In. You're Just Reacting To Dialogue, A Performance, An Audition, A Headache, A Piece Of Furniture, A Piece Of Clothing.

I'm Trying To Figure Myself Out Through My Movies. Whether It's Big Stuff Like What We're Doing Here, Or Little Stuff Like Why Aren't I Happier? With Every Film I Feel Like I'm Apologising For Something. I Feel I'm Most Successful When I'm Looking For Something That Embarrasses Me About My Character That I'd Like To Expose.