I had gotten to the point where I just didn't want to perform anymore - I didn't want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.

I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.

Movies that look safe are less interesting.

I think when you get all the money and all the freedom, rarely do you get a good movie out of it or a movie that you're proud of.

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.

If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which independent filmmakers do, it is a very delicate craft, interpersonal relationship, and being able to enrapture a very small audience.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.