All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing.

I think when you think of my films, I think hopefully you think of an extreme sort of real unfolding, real-time, performed, feeling semi-improvised, you know what I mean, all that.

You face challenges and you have to make choices. You're weighing the necessary responsibility toward reality and authenticity and of course the need to create a compressed drama over two hours.

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.