The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

I guess what I like in my movies is where you see a character change by maybe two degrees as opposed to the traditional movie change of ninety degrees. I guess that always feels false to me in movies because that doesn't truly happen. Around me, at least in the life I live, I guess I don't see people change ninety or a hundred degrees. I see them change in very small increments. I think it's just a monitor I might have on myself as a writer to not make any false scenes.

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.