I guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high.

I become kind of obsessive about research.

For whatever reason, I have an emotional life that wants to come out.

I've come to a point where I just want to do movies that I just believe in. I have come to an understanding of filmmaking, a new understanding where I believe it's a director's medium. That means working with people that I believe in.

You want to be interesting? Be interested.

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

Almost all the movies I've directed are adaptations. And I think what I found when I went to film school, where they try to push you to find your voice or your thing, is that I got a lot of things out of adaptations.