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

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.

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

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."

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

When you sit and watch the film with an audience, the focus groups and the cards and all of that is the less what you're worrying about. When you watch a film with an audience you see what is working and what's not working.

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