My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.

I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.

People who come to see my movies, you're coming to see a drama masquerading as a genre piece.

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.

There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

You're never the same. You're degrading, or you're getting better. You don't stay the same.