I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.
Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.
Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker
One of the things I love about cinema is the range.
The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.