There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

Directing was a big learning experience for me because I had to deal with every aspect of everything-all this constant decision-making, with people asking you questions at every moment, and you have to have answers for them all.

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.