I don't want to be the angry guy.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.

Of course, I'm no dummy.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

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.