It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.

There are many dramas that I would like to make: dramas based on real stories. It's approaching things from the other side.

The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.

Interviews, when they are just simply an exercise in hearing what you want to hear, are of no interest. And many, many, if not most interviews have that character. The interviewer who comes in with a list of bullet points they're going to address one after the other. Interviews, properly considered, should be investigative. You should not know what you're going to hear. You should be surprised.

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

Everything is a reenactment. We are reenacting the world in the mind. The world is not inside there. It does not reside in the gray matter of the brain.