So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you. You have to be obsessed, you have to get up at 3 in the morning and go "Wait, I have an idea!" You have to continually be drawn over and over again to deepening inside that story, and ruminating over questions: "Why would he say this to her? Why if he was standing there, would she go?" Every one of those answers has to come from some personal place, and in order to do that, you can't sit on the surface. It's such a big change that you can't really explain it to anyone else.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

We think, "If I have more money, I am more valuable. If I make more money, I am more valuable." It's all sort of wound up with this problem that humans have with their failure.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.