I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.
If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it.
I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.
I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.
If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.
There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.
What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.
Sometimes it takes a partner to say, "What is it you want?" because I think we operate in life and sometimes we don't know. We're all in some kind of maze going after the cheese at the end, and we get it and we go, "What is it that we want?"
It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.