I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

I just realized that I need to be a director - for two reasons. One, directors were already my heroes at this point. I wanted to; when I wanted to be an actor I wanted to work with this director. Not work with this actor, I wanted to work for this director.

If you were a U.S. Cavalry guy and you thought you were going to be captured by the Apaches, you might kill yourself. If they were with their wives and they thought they were going to be captured, they would shoot their wives for fear of the Apaches getting them.

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends.

All my movies are achingly personal.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.