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

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

That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

The best advice is essentially that thing in the back of your mind that you really aren't sure of, and when you start to hear other people bring up the same concerns, you say, "Okay, let's address that."

There's something wrong - the performance, the weather, the set design, the lighting. Something is not working. And so you say, "Give me 10 minutes." When you're first directing, you're terrified. But when you've been in that situation enough times, you know that under pressure, it will come to you.

You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference.

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