It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.

I can't imagine people telling me what to do - I just can't imagine it.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.

That's just how I see things on a base level: there's so much going on. Or at least I like to have that feeling. It's part of being interested in notions of reality apart from storytelling. I don't know if it has something to do with having an art school education, which makes you aware of the way visuals speak, or makes you trust them more.

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.