My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with it.

The best cinema is about ethics.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.

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

Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.

Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around.