I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

It's funny how that comes up, because sometimes I'll write something and I'll think, I don't know if that's a film or a play, and then other things I feel very strongly about them just being plays - they feel very theatrical to me.

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

I make movies I want to see.