Quotes

My biggest career lesson: Never build a team where you are the smartest person in the room. Because there is no one there to elevate you when you need it and you will end up feeling used.

My work is my odyssey. My work is my love language. It guides and abides me. My work is my salvation.

Hollywood is a place where people go to ignore or outrun their pain.

To be around me your presence has to be better than my solitude.

Only some are warriors.

Sometimes brilliance only wants to stay for the night. She doesn't want to stay, entertaining your silly vacillations of fear and inadequacy. She won't coddle or mime. She won't inflate or delude. She won't comfort you or heal. But, she'll give you a time you'll never forget to remember. And you will...be changed.

I share my art. And that should be enough for you.

I look at my job as a director much like a symphonist conducting a symphony. And my job as a directing extends off set as well. And the music never stops. Not for a long time after a project is out into the world. And that posturing requires a lot of stamina, mental fortitude, commitment, integrity, professionalism and grace.