Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

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.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

I had wanted to do a comedy.

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

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.

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