When you're working on a project that's going to take six years, you're weird from the jump.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.
The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business.
Every time I've gotten myself into trouble, it's because I'm choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.
The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26.
Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.
I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.
It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.
I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down, I've been doing this for a decade, and I remember what it was like when I started. You spend maybe five percent of your time actually doing it, and the rest of the time, you're trying to get that five percent.
Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.