I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

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.

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.

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

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

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!