I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because unfortunately people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors.

When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.

I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over.

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.