I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.