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

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

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

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

I love a certain kind of acting style that I would call non-American, which tends to be more detail-oriented and less externalized. There's a kind of naturalism that I often find in non-American actors. I also find that quality in the American actors I work with, but I like to bring in those influences creatively.

I have a career now, and I have to say, five years ago I didn't. I'm 50, and you never know what works, but I think part of that is because - in this way that can't be defined but which can be examined - we cannot work alone.

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.