Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.

If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down.

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.

I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.