When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

America is a huge country, of course. It's complicated. There's good, and there's not so good, and that's the same wherever you live.

For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.