I Got A Super 8

I Love That Feeling Of Going Into A Packed Theater.

I Learn More From The Audience Than I Can From Anybody Else. Not From What They Write On The Scorecards, But How They Respond To The Movie While They're Watching It - Where They Laugh And Where They React.

I Did New York, I Love You Which Is A Very Personal Film For Me. My Most Personal Film, But It's Not Like A Film I've Ever Made. I Would Never Do That Film As A Feature, For Instance, Because It's Not Very Commercial Of An Idea.

The Producer Can Put Something Together, Package It, Oversee It, Give Input. I'm The Kind Of Producer That Likes To Take A Back Seat And Let The Director Run With It. If He Needs Me, I'm There For Him. As A Director, I Like To Have The Producer There With Me. As A Producer, I Don't Want To Be There Because I Happen To Be A Director First And Foremost, I Don't Want To "that Guy."

When Critics Or People Judge, I Think It's Harder To Make A Commercial, Pop Movie Than It Is To Make A Pretentious Art Film. It's Harder To Reach Millions Of People And Satisfy Them And Make Them Happy. These Films Kind Of Get Ghettoized, This Genre Because There Are So Many Big, Big Movies That Are Such Big Hits, But Aren't Any Good. The Audiences, They're Not Judging The Style Of The Director, Or The Execution Of The Film. They're Just Looking To Be Entertained. They Want To Escape From Their Reality, And That's Why We Make Movies, To Get People To Escape From The Realities.