I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

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

I don't think good films have messages.

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

I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.

To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.