I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.
I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.
If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.
If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.
One of the great things about working with Focus is that you're never forced, especially with a film with low budget. The pressure is sort of off. It's like it's so under the radar in a sense that you can cast whoever you want.
I want to be happy while I make movies and not just do things just to work. I want to do things I spend years on.
There are a lot of movies I would want to be a fly on the wall for. I would have loved to see the making of Jaws [1975], with all the fears and anxieties it was going to be a complete failure, and then to have it turn into the first blockbuster.
You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.