There's so much standing around and waiting with moviemaking!
But, you always have to listen to everyone, because I'm not always right and other people have great ideas, too. I think that makes great moviemaking.
The thing that I love about moviemaking is how many people it takes to make it.
In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.
It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage.
When I cast someone in a movie, I have to absolutely trust who they are as a human being. Trust is the intangible of moviemaking.
Amazon may be the only studio that's run by people who come out of making independent movies, real hands-on moviemaking.
I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
Moviemaking is just really neat, and I really like doing that. I'd like to get into it more, but in terms of my role in all of this and in terms of the gift that God has given me, I had to come to the conclusion that my strength is as a storyteller, creating the story.
It's like trying to be a traffic cop and write a poem at the same time. You need an executive head to handle all the vast paraphernalia of moviemaking. You need another, more sensitive head to get the delicate human emotional values you are trying to put on film.
