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What's interesting is that you can have a set that's very calm, very smooth, very cooperative... and end up with a terrible movie. And you can have a set that's really horrible as far as relationships and volatility, and come up with a great movie. Sometimes that energy gets infused into what ends up on film - it's interesting in that way.

Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.

I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.

Simply, the majority of the most interesting filmmakers are the ones confronted with difficult situations. Their creativity blows a hole in the wall and lets in the light.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

Films can be entertaining without shying away from exploring something. They can be magical and have fantasy, but also can have enough reality that you can be really emotionally invested.

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.