That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.

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

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

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

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

Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, "Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me," and beat very loudly the war drum.