Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with. – Sean Durkin
What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where its like a coach-player relationship. – Sean Durkin
In editing, its amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. Its amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension. – Sean Durkin
I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that theres sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways. They trust me and I trust them. And I know what Im going to get from them, to an extent. Its just fun, kind of creating this little family. – Todd Phillips