And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff is done before you shoot the movie. That's an unusual way to work.

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.

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.

There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.