A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.
It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.
I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.