Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

People will say things after a screening that it affects them in a certain way, which is why I don't like to explain what certain things are about. I want them to have that. It limits people's ability to understand something if I say it's "about this." That's happened to us a bunch on this.

There are so many people who are making movies now who can’t get any kind of distribution, so the market seems like it’s flooded.

You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis, if not more than once a day, that you are struggling with budgetary constraints. Whereas when you're writing, the limitation that you have is your imagination. So it's decidedly non-pragmatic.

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them.

If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do with me.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.