You Have A Responsibility For The Way

When You Cast Somebody You Cast Them Not Only For... I Look For An Inherent Kind Of Quality. You Are Going To Be Shooting 14 Hour Days And You Are Going To Be Tired. You Are Going To Not Necessarily Be Able To Conjure Armor Or A Façade Every Single Moment.

Look, It's Nice. I Like The Fact That Critics Liked This Movie, But Most Of The Movies That I've Made, You'll Find A Handful Of People That Love It And More Than A Few Other Handfuls Of People Hate It. If I Was Invested In That, I Would've Given Up Long Ago.

Hollywood Is Great. I Also Think It's Stupid And Small-minded And Shortsighted.

I Learned Just To Be A Belligerent Asshole, Which Was Really: "you Have To Get What You Need To Get Out Of It." You Have To Fight For Things You Believe In, And You Have To Be Smart About How You Position It So That You Don't Just Become White Noise.

What You Learn From That First, And I Don't Call It 'trial By Fire,' I Call It 'baptism By Fire,' Is That You Are Going To Have To Take All Of The Responsibility, Because Basically When It Gets Right Down To It, You Are Going To Get All Of The Blame, So You Might As Well Have Made All Of The Decisions That Led To People Either Liking It Or Disliking It. There's Nothing Worse Than Hearing Somebody Say 'oh, You Made That Movie? I Thought That Movie Sucked,' And You Have To Agree With Them, You Know?