I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things that happen.

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope an audience responds the same way. It's very important to have the electrical circuit made, but I don't have control over how people feel when they flip the switch. So the whole idea of marketing research and test screenings is just foreign to me.

As soon as you start making a film that's expensive then the studio wants total control over all elements of it because they want to get all their money back. If you make a smaller film you can try a lot more things because you can have control over it and not just be a hired director. The lower the budget the more freedom you have.

Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.

For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.