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

I make movies I want to see.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

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

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.