To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.

I try not to articulate ideas in the film once I've arrived on the plot and the characters. I believe that if I focus my attention with enough compassion and heart on those things, then other things will be revealed, and that's from the education that I've had from the novel.

I make films that are very personal, and I always have. It's kind of the only thing that I think I have to offer as a filmmaker: the intimacy I've had with experience in a particular world, so the film comes from things I've seen and things I've felt. It gets transformed by the process. I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves.

As a father, I wanted to make a movie that my kids can love.

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.