My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects.

Every movie I make. That’s my hideout, the place I don’t quite understand, but feel most at home.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don't choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I'll decide what genre I need. That's just how I work.

There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that "he's not reading." And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along.

The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.