The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

You can do things in twin scenes now you couldn't before. You can implement actual moving cameras.

With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to be agreed upon.

I just like working with smart people.

To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

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