I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that they have a handle on exactly where the character is in the chronology of things. In that sense the actors become your best check on the logic of the piece, and the way in which it all fits together. They become essential collaborators. The main thing is you have to work with very smart actors.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.