You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.

Man, that's the only kind of book I like – one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.

You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot.

I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.