Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.

Film works when a director and a star have a connection. You know, when there's something telekinetic between them, there's a partnership, it's like alter egos. It's like James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock, or Fellini and Mastroianni. I'm not comparing, I'm just saying, if you can come into a relationship where the director and star have such a bond, it's so much easier to make a movie.

The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue.

The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous, and our need to understand our experiences on a subconscious level.

Narcissism as a virtue is very futuristic. Narcissism as a quality is where I think things are heading.

Doing your first film, it's very important that it's a commercial success, because that gives you a couple times to experiment until you have to hit the jackpot again.

Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know.