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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film.

You just have to ensure that you make good films because audiences today have become picky and smart, and rightfully so.

When you go into a film, you read it, and something clicks for you, and you like it, and you sign on for it; you go for it. You know that this is going to be a good film, and that is your best hope. Past that, it's a crap shoot - you roll the dice.

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you shouldn't view it as a mistake.

It's a hard line to walk, man. Cause you know you want to make this movie, you want to make it dark and real, you want to show all this stuff but unfortunately you can't always do that.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

If a film is good, it will work no matter what.

Until I'm on the set of a film, to me it's still not for real.