What happens between action and cut for me is a blur, I go almost into a whiteout, and then I see the film and I'm like, "Oh that's what I did? Cool!"

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

I think certainly directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.