All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

In the '80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.

Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.