I would hate to be in a situation where my entire focus was obsessing around the issue of whether we're going to win best picture.

That was very uncharacteristic of our team. Our guys didn't handle the entire situation very well and one thing led to another. We compounded our mistakes and allowed one to turn into another. You can not be tentative against pressure. Louisville sensed our tentativeness and fear and jumped on us and took us right out of the action. We got what we deserved.

It's funny where life can take you.

I was hoping they would win and they came through. We had all lifetime-best times.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

Everybody always asks us how we choose the movies we have going right now, and it's hard to explain sometimes. There's a randomness to the way things kind of happen and get done. And sometimes you have this perfect storm, and you have to accept that and do the best you can.