I have this new theory about films. It's almost like astrology, where if we started on a Tuesday the film will be different than if we started on a Wednesday. Not because of the planets. It's that sometimes you start with the wrong balance and the whole thing gets messed up.

The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

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.

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

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.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.