The thing is, right now the films don't need to be overtly political to be about our times. We also need films that are just human, that are about people. People need that, too. It's like we need to reconnect to what it is to be human. Not just what our political situation is. That's not what I'm thinking about exclusively. Human content is needed again, as it was in the '70s. I think films were more human than they've been since then.

In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.