I Was A Disinterested Student.

I Want Stuff To Play As Wide As Possible. I Want To Be Able To See... If I Could Play The Whole Thing In A Master And It Could Be Compelling Enough, That'd Be Great. Then It Simplifies My Day, It Simplifies Life For The Actors When You Could Just Focus On That. But By The Same Token I Don't Want To Be Forced Into Coverage. So I Want It To Be As Good From Every Angle And I Need To Get As Many Of The Kind Of Shadings That I Want From Every Angle.

If You Read The Good Reviews You Gotta Read The Bad Reviews. I Kind Of Think Of It As Like Being A Quarterback: You Get Way Too Much Blame When It's Bad And Way Too Much Credit When It's Good.

Awards Movies Are Normally Sort Of... Life-affirming And Noble. It's Probably Too Much Of An Intellectual Conceit And, You Know, People Don't Like It When You Don't Lead The Bad Guy Off In Cuffs.

Our Pavlovian Response To Movies Has Gotten To Its Lowest Point Ever. You Look At A Lot Of Movies That Are Successful And A Lot Of Movies That Studios Hold Up As Examples And You Go, 'my God, That Isn't Even A Story. It Isn't Even Two Acts. It's Eight Set Pieces Drawn Out With Slow Motion.' The Difficulty For Me Was That You Had To Hope That People Were Interested In This Kind Of A Story.

And I Love Shooting Football.