The long takes process doesn't allow for that many takes. In the past I have shot over 50 takes of different shots. Sometimes you end up using take 64, sometimes take four.

I guess I have a short attention span! I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges.

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.

When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.

Every film is difficult. Making films, you're always going to have problems, there's always going to be challenges.

Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s.

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.