To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

Evil is a really tough concept for me. The idea of a villain that is bad for bad's sake seems kind of absurd.

I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.

Normally, I tend to be a very binary filmmaker. You give me a problem and a destination and I say, "All right. If you want to get from here to here, there's a series of if/then's that will get you there. And if you have other stuff you want to do along the way, I'll give you all the if/then's that are caused by that."

Action to me is something very fun to shoot.

I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.