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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

When you're making a film, there are so many people involved that you get opinions and notes from people and you don't even know who they are. I find that quite difficult and it wears you down.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

I think filmmaking is a strange animal because it's anti-Democratic and collective at the same time, but I think it's all about not trying to know everything better than everybody else but making the right choices.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

There's a method to the madness in filmmaking, where everything's very specifically laid out, the shots and what they need - but there also can be a freedom to allowing the actors to find genuine moments.