“I love backlight because it’s pushing the actors toward us. It’s really that sense of the halo of backlight, which for me, metaphorically, I think actors are angels. I mean, sometimes, you know, you can hate them, right? But I do think that...
“People think that this industry is very large, and it is, but it’s also very small, and a lot of people know a lot of people. So the best thing you can do is meet and talk to as many people as you can. I hire production assistants who don’t...
“He and I go to see the Beatles perform and I said, ‘What’s that guitar John Lennon’s playing?’ He said, ‘I think it’s a Rickenbacker,’ I said, off the top of my head, ‘Why don’t we go to the manager of the...
“In my mind…I need three items to create a scene that’s worthy of…devoting the time to make it interesting for the person driving by. I want someone, and I don’t mind that they look at them and think, “What’s that...
“In college, I was in Franklin Hall, a dormitory, and I used to go into the laundry room and I would practice and practice and practice, and, you know, people would be coming in and out of the laundry and I’m in there going, ah ah ah ah ah. I said, sorry,...
