Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.

My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

I live a bourgeois life.

Studio movies are looking more like independent movies and independent movies are looking more like studio movies, and I think cinema is better now because of it.

I didn't really have any interest in producing anything.

We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.