I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

Music is like color or acting or whatever. It's really something I think about from the beginning. Not that I always know exactly what I'm going to use, but I don't see it as something like, "Let's find some songs now!" after we have a finished film.

There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

When I'm editing, I tend to cut, go back over it, cut, go back over it, cut, so by the time I'm done, even with a cut, I don't have a rough cut and then work on it so much. I have a pretty rigorous cut of the movie that's usually in the range of what the final movie is going to be. It doesn't mean I don't work on it a lot after that, but I get it into a shape so I feel I can really tell what it needs, or at least it's ready to show people.