And also, that's the kind of wonderful thing about film culture, is the interaction between films and who works on what, where they were before, and now what they're doing now, and that inevitably informs how people view a film.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

I need what I'm thinking to come out into the world, even if it's a two-word approval, like, "Yeah, I agree," I need that approval so that in the morning I can get up and use that when I go to work. It's a weird version of focusing.

I don't feel any connection to Russia.