I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.

One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.

I don't think good films have messages.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.