People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.
I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.
You can do things in twin scenes now you couldn't before. You can implement actual moving cameras.
Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige, my friend.
Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.
I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.