The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.'

At school I was very shy. I wasn't funny really.

I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.

When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.

You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.

It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.