People make the assumption that you're only interested in one thing based on the most recent thing you've done. But some directors can be pretty promiscuous about their tastes, and that's how I want to challenge myself.
We've suspended the willing suspension of disbelief. We have given up that relationship, that almost hypnotic engagement, with the characters up on the screen.
I was trained in the repertory theater. You would do Moliere one night and Sam Shepard the next.
The phone that you carry around with you. It's not just that it's a locator for anybody who wants to actually find out where you are, but it's also a leash. It's a reminder just how tethered you are.
There's only a certain number of movies I'm going to get made, and it's important to me that they each be original somehow.
When we did 'Thirtysomething,' television was either about doctors, lawyers, or cops.
I know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing.
The military has been actually remarkable at dealing with race, but gender is an issue.
My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'
I'm always interested in the ways in which a character can inhabit either a theme or a premise personally, so that those scenes that are about his character or his relationship with other characters feel in context and don't seem to be apart from or oddly vestigial to the actual drama.
In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.
Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have been around during the fervor of the match in Reykjavik and the rise of Bobby Fischer, so those two things conspired to pique my interest.
The issue of diamonds in Africa is inseparable from the issue of child soldiers.
The Beatles in 1963 came to America and became international celebrities, but Bobby Fischer was one of the first, as Elvis was, more in terms of the message created around him.
Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world.
If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing.
People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.
I'm very promiscuous in my tastes.
Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view.
I like to do everything I can to avoid rehearsals, even while we're rehearsing.
