You can't control everything that comes to you.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really hungry to prove anything to anybody, really. But when I stand outside myself and observe what I think are my strengths and weaknesses going into directing, it's what you just said, an affliction to organize moments.

Unpopular speech is absolutely vital to the health of our nation.