I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

The better a novel is, in literary terms, the more you can't be faithful. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.

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

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.

I want studios to be financing director-driven, auteurist cinema, as they did in the '70s. I think it's starting to happen now. Plus, because of how our world has changed politically, I think audiences are demanding more realism. We need to have more stuff in our culture about what is really going on right now.