I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.

It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.

Jesse James is like a Leonard Cohen song, I wanted to do something that was like a pop song.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

The fantasy gives you the courage to feel things.