I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.

You can write a whole fiction, and you're talking to people who have gone through that, in real life. But the truth of it is that when you're talking to those people, you don't care about your movie anymore. You just want to hear about what they have gone through. You want all of the details. It's amazing.

Wow, I wish I could have done something like that.” That’s the thing, with other filmmakers, if I like them I just feel admiration. And yes, I usually say, “I wish I could have been part of that creative process,” because the films I admire like that are so specific that I know the creative process is also so specific, it’s nothing you could just imitate.

The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.

Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.

Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.