The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.

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.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.