You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

I know that obviously, that if you want to get the story, if you want to get close to somebody, if you want to find out what is really the truth or what's really interesting, you have to create a trust between these two things, between the journalist and the subject.

The film is made in the editing room.

I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.