I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them. The 30-second format is very hard. I sometimes call it American Haiku. And I think some of the commercials I've done are not so bad.

The way I go about making a movie... even the ones that are interview-driven, I go into them not knowing what's going to happen, and feeling my way through.

Philip Glass once told me, "They can always copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you're going to do."

It's a kind of honour when I see how many people are imitating the style of how I make films.

The fact that the world is utterly insane makes it tolerable.

In fact, part of the Netflix series is drama.Beyond re-enactments. Why not invent something new?

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .