The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

A lot of people get stuck, like, "Oh, if it's made by a studio, it can't be independent." Often they link it to the source of financing, or how it's distributed, but I don't really know how you can. A filmmaker will take his money from anywhere. It doesn't matter.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

Independent means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you want. It's where you feel the director, not a machine, at work. It doesn't matter where the money comes from. It matters how much freedom the director has to work with his or her team. That's how I personally define independent movies.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.