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Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

Making movies is both entirely ludicrous and incredibly hard. It's a preposterous way to spend your time. You give up a lot for the privilege of doing it, and one of the things you get are relationships of immense trust that you see forged in situations of immense stress.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring.

You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.