I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.

If you're surrounded by good people and you're really honest with yourself, you'll be delivered.

I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

You know that certain things that you use in the film are going to be shown to audiences five hundred times before they ever sit down to watch the movie. So you have to kind of modulate what can I do to give marketing enough material but that I can still withhold certain things so that it's fresh and surprising for the audience coming to see the movie.

Normally, I tend to be a very binary filmmaker. You give me a problem and a destination and I say, "All right. If you want to get from here to here, there's a series of if/then's that will get you there. And if you have other stuff you want to do along the way, I'll give you all the if/then's that are caused by that."

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

I used to be a die-hard defender of physical film, which I still am. I love shooting on physical film and I think it's great.