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I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.

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

If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start.

There are different reasons to make movies.

When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a lot of money involved in making movies, and it's a way for people to reassure themselves, who have spent money, and it's also a way to work out how to market a movie.

Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.