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

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

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.

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