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I don't see how it's a risky thing to take a great part with a great director and a great script. That, to me, is not really a dangerous, risky proposition. It's actually a really good choice.

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don't hold back anything. You never ever want someone to go, 'Oh I shouldn't have done that.' There isn't anything you shouldn't try. If it's terrible, who cares?

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.

You have to be very flexible and understand as a director, especially as a writer/director, that you cannot hang onto stuff really hard. You have to be ready to accept those happy accidents and to anticipate that they are going to happen and capitalize on them.

I'm the kind of director, at any given moment, an idea occurs to me, I'll just do it.

I think as a director you have to make it your own. It'd be a mistake to approach a project with the idea of 'I'm going to do this the way I think somebody else would,' because then you'd never be clear on your idea.

You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.