I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.

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

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

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.

We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?

I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This has all gotta be important!' I would just underline the whole thing!