Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

Because many of the films I've made have had an intellectualedge, it's harder for me to lie. It's harder for me to go to peoplewith money and say I don't care about art, all I care about iscommerce; all I really want to do is make money.

I had this whole issue of doing a crime film in the 2010s. The genre's been mined very, very heavily. Post-Scorsese, post-Tarantino, post-Guy Ritchie, what do you do? I wasn't attracted to pulp so much as all of a sudden I had a pulp problem. I had to find a way to make this interesting, because there's a lot of crime films that come out on VOD every week, and a number of these star Nicolas Cage.

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.

I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.

Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me.

The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present.