I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.

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.

You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?

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

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.