I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I'm a writer first. As a director, I've got no problem cutting the scenes.

I'm one of those big believers that the movie comes together in the way it's supposed to be and that movies are fated to become what they become.

Stories of friendship are very interesting to me. Artificial families are something I like to explore. Whether it's a bunch of guys or a bunch of ladies, there's something interesting about that.

[If] you want to learn something about somebody, get into a fistfight. You'll learn more in five minutes than you will in five weeks of conversations. It's basic.

Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.

I think great acting is about inhabiting a skin and transforming yourself.