I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

Every movie I do is challenging for me. There is some element of imaginative that you wouldn't have in a typical movie.

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

Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.

It's very hard to say I'm surrealist. It's like saying I'm poetic. It's not something you want necessarily to be aware of.

I don't like movies that are too manipulative. A lot of movies thrive on really pushing your buttons and making you hate the villain.