I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

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

I think the reality is important anyway.

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

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.

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

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.