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I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.

As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.

Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.

Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.