It's hard to get the right elements together, get the right cast, get them at the time you need them, get the script completely there, and get the right budget.

I like being able to talk about work while we're making dinner. I'd rather discuss it at that moment while it's fresh.

I don't watch 'MTV'. Our sons watch 'Jersey Shore' sometimes. I walk through the room, and I get disgusted, and I leave, and I give them a hard time about it.

There's an amazing movie called 'Los Angeles Plays Itself.'

I think of music videos as commercials for songs.

If we don't have the actors, or you get the sense that some of the other people involved in making the movie don't necessarily see the movie the way you see it - all those elements, for us, we like having those things feel like they're moving in the same direction.

When you study a character, when you're making a film, you want to understand the character: like, what makes them tick?

I love it when I see somebody else make a great film. I think there is a great supportive film community, even though the awards seem to do something weird to that.

Like 'TRL' was kind of fun - Oh, there's a new video!

There's something about somebody's first screenplay: it's like their whole life experience has kind of been bottled into it. They bring so much richness to it. And not that they won't do that for their next script, but there is something about their first experience and the time that it's been floating in their head.