The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.

Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.

Music is a big factor in helping the illusion of the film come to life. The same way music brings back different periods of our lives.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.