You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.
I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.