One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.
I really admire people who have long-distance relationships. It's an incredible achievement. I couldn't do it.
I really admire Mark Ruffalo and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Vincent Gallo, for example, who writes and directs and acts in his own films.
I admire writers who succeed at what I consider the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might find.
I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.