Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

To be loved, I think, is the thing that gets you up in the morning.

You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

There’s a period of time in your life when I kind of look back, and I’m like, was I happy, or was I just not aware?

I've never been on a cruise.