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Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

If I read a script and I like it, there's nothing that will stop me from trying to be in that movie.

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going.

Scripts don't get movies made.

If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.