Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

I have great appreciation for people who do anything well. I think that it's very difficult to do what you do well.

Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.

Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it’s about. It’s not just about getting a performance. It’s also about the psychology of the cinematic moment, and the psychology of the presentation of that, of that window.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

For me, the scariest thing about a serial killer is that there's somebody who lives next door to you, running power tools late into the night, and you don't know he has a refrigerator full of penises.