When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

To be honest, there is a tourists' trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.

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

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

Everything I make starts very personally.

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.

Don't worry about the future.