I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

Billy Wilder once told me, 'Make 'em personal,' ... 'But make 'em for the people.'

'Elizabethtown' was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it. It's not the biggest group of people ever, but I still really believe in 'Elizabethtown.' It wasn't, like, a savage blow.

I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

Music is like the other person in this film and it's really important for Orlando's character. It leads him on his journey and is with him on his road trip,