I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.

Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it.