If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
There is one important thing to remember: the tools don't make the movie, you make the movie
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
Fair play to those who dare to dream!
The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.
I'm a storyteller – that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make ‘em move!
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.
You can say "I love you" in Helvetica. And you can say it with Helvetica Extra Light if you want it be really fancy. Or you can say it with the Extra Bold if it's really intensive and passionate. And it might work.
We're trying to reinforce the idea that you don't have to have money to have fun, read, be educated, see a band or watch a documentary.
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.