I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.

I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like doing independent New York theater because you don't have any backgrounds or props. So it's kind of like making the lowest budgeted film you could possibly imagine, plus $100 million.

'Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.

I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.