I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

I always thought the editor should cut the film and so I'll come in and look at the movie. Just because that's the only way I can really see the ideas of the editor, it's really working together. Yes it's a hierarchy, yes I'm the boss, but I like to see and to think about the idea, and it's about us asking, 'do we have to say that?' and, 'how do we make it there?' So it's advising the editor, it's very give and take, it's very free, but in the end, it's wonderful once you get through the first couple of cuts.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

I had always been wary of doing any autobiographical movies, truly feeling at home with fiction.

Casting the right actor for the right part is some unspoken thing between the two of you to communicate.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.