I've always been attracted to temporary families.

In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.

The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.

Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

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

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.