In moviemaking, you learn to pay attention to detail, because so much is in the detail. And when you're shooting, you try to be very alert to what's going on, even if you're tired.

Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

If I worked in my apartment, I'd never leave my apartment.

I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies can be interpreted as critical of their subjects.

My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.