You Think About Taking Audiences

The Importance Of Rehearsal Is Maybe You Want To Talk About How The Scene's Going To Be Designed, How It's Going To Be Staged, All Of Those Things. It's All About Preparation, And Deciding What Mutually You Don't Want To Do, Rather Than Necessarily What You Do.

There Have Been Screenwriters Who I'm Sure Would Gladly Kill Me, Because I've Been Very Fast And Loose With Their Work, Because I Felt Like It Wasn't Up To My High Standards. I Would Push And Pull It On Set, And Make Changes All The Time. But Then When You're Working With An Original Screenplay, My Theater Instincts Kick In, And I Suddenly Become Very Keeper-of-the-words.

The Joy Of A Road Movie Is Its Very Simple Narrative Nature, Which Is That You Know You're Going To Go Through Different Places And You're Going To Meet New People. At The Same Time, You Have To Not Make It Feel Too Obvious And Too Crudely Episodic.

I've Made Movies That Cost Less Than One Car Chase.

You've Got To Believe As A Filmmaker That If A Movie's Good Enough, It's Going To Survive; And If It's Not, Well, It Won't.