You Don't Know What The Pattern Of

I've Consciously Taken On Material That's A Bit Too Much For Me But Not An Overreach. The First Movie, Just About Performances. 'the Town,' I Learned How To Work Broader Material, Develop Tension, Direct Bigger Scenes, Action Sequences. 'argo,' I Experimented With Film Stock, Widened The Scope Of My Geography.

I Have A Good Instinct For What's Real And What's Not. I Don't Have To Second-guess Myself.

I've Never Held Myself Up Particularly High When I Had Movies That Worked, And I Never Held Myself All That Low When I Had Failures.

I Never Know What My Next Move Will Be In Hollywood. It's Such An Unpredictable Town. People Get Jaded And Lost And I've Been Able To Stay A Float. I Think The Next Logical Step In My Career Would Be To Start My Own Filmmaking Empire Like (harvey Weinstein) And (bob Weinstein) Did So Many Years Ago. I Think If Only The Unions Weren't So Strict In Boston, I'd Set Up Shop There And Make Films Of A Certain Quality You Don't See Represented These Days. I'm Full Of Ideas And Dreams.

It's Much Nicer To Be Praised Than To Be Damned. But You Have To Have A Certain Sense Of Your Own Priorities And Ideas About What Works And What Doesn't Because Otherwise, If You're Just Looking For Eternal Validation All The Time, You Can Be Motivated By The Wrong Things And I Don't Think It's As Personally Satisfying In Your Own Work.