I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like life, and there are situations that should have some magic and the separation with the grain.

Every day I live by only one rule, be a good guy.

I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.

I'm just trying to be truthful and collaborate with people who have interesting things to say.

You can work on a movie for years, and you won't know until you show it to an audience for the first time if it makes any sense to them at all, if they're touched, if they find it funny, so it's endlessly exciting, because failure is just right there all the time, and your chances of success don't rise that much based on the fact that you succeeded last time.

If we really talked about what's wrong with you, you'd need a 7-1/2-hour movie and nobody would know what category to put it in!