Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.