Nicholas Jarecki quotes:

Why is the public so interested in movies about the wealthy? My answer is that Shakespeare wrote about kings. That's where the action is. And it's the classic, cathartic thing. You get to indulge in a lifestyle you're not part of, a tragic error leads to a downfall, and you get to say, 'Thank God I'm not him.'

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.

I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.

Doing anything on a movie at Sundance is great.

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

When you're editing the film, you use a temp track. So you're putting music in there for a rough cut to keep track of what's going on. It can be a hindrance if wrong, it can be an enormous asset if you get it right.

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.