“A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, “This camera’s really going to be a character. I want people to feel like they’re being punched.””

Stop your grinnin and drop your linen

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can’t forget the audience.

Greatness isn’t something you should always be chasing. There’s greatness within all of us, and I think that’s what we forget.

I hate tests. It’s a really lousy way to judge a person’s ability.

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it’s not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it’s all up to you.