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

The difference between a movie and a play is that the production you end up with is the production. If a movie that I spent time on turns out to be crap, it's never going to be made again.

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

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

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.