Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.

All movies are alchemy and time is one of the ingredients that goes into the alchemy. You want the time to be right; you don't want to rush it. You need the right script, the right cast and the right feeling in the culture.

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that.

I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't care about their characters.

I just go with what excites me.