I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times.

I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of times.

I like to let the actors work the way they want to.

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.

The world doesn't grieve when you're grieving. The world goes on about its business. You're having a good day and I'm having a bad one and vice versa. And they could be very good and very bad at the same time. You multiply that by seven billion and you have one element of human experience.

When you have people like Casey [Affleck] and Michelle Williams and they want to do more takes you don't say, "Sorry, that's it." And I also don't like to say, "It's fine, it's great." Unless it's clearly there.

I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing when you're in the theater because everyone's there to protect the writing. When I had an idea for a film that I really cared about as my own, I wanted to direct it, and then I immediately became interested in directing in and of itself because it's such a deep art. You suddenly have all these tools at your disposal to tell the story.