I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it's pretty irritating to get a movie on. So to complicate it by having more irritation as a director, I don't really need it. And because I direct a great deal still, but in the theater, I kind of get that anyway. Which is not at all to say I would never do it again, or it would never happen again.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time, completely silent. He was very self-contained; my mother was more outgoing and chatty and social. I'm certainly more like her.

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.