When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it.

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.

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

I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are going to be either positioning themselves or how they will be saying their words. When people goof during the first take, it usually looks realistic.

Silent is about needing to make a scene shorter by having physical things to cut to. That way, you can manipulate a character to the other side of the room. But, if they say the wrong thing, it might locate that action in a particular part of the scene. It's a mechanical need.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.