How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

I hate the domestic life.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.