What I don't have in theater is editing.

Some of my ideas for film or theater come to me in dreams. I'm also very creative when I'm talking to others. I believe in collaboration.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

The idea that all violence in movies is okay simply because it happens is bull. Directors and writers have a responsibility.

What I don't have in theater is editing.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.