Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

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 think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.

Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted.

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

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.