The problem with big films is they snowball very rapidly and you can never pull back. It's a pipeline that needs to be fed.

To me, any kind of filmmaking that's reactive is not going to be as good as something more inventive and original.

Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you.

The structural notions to me always have to be worked out very carefully in the script stage. Whatever a particular structure is. Whether it's chronological or non-chronological. To me that's always about what point of view are we trying to address in the film?

I studied English Literature. I wasn’t a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.

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

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.