Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

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

As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.

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.

Apparently there’s this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it’s totally shocked to still be alive—so it sings this really beautiful song.