The more you do your homework, the more you're free to be intuitive. But you've got to put the work in.

I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.

You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that interest me. Do they move me? Interest me? Make me think? When I run across something that is provocative in an unsettling way, it appeals to me.

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

I do subscribe to the maxim that generally comedy is like jazz. Either you get it or you don't. You can't learn it and you can't be taught it. I don't think that if you are not a funny person, you can fake it.

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.