Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.

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

You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.

People ask me all the time, "What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett?" It's like, "No, I'm trying to do me." Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.

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.

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

I graduated from college in 1980.