Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.
Showing your movie to an audience... it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.
If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.
Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.
Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.
Rather than thinking in terms of a specific genre or specific kind of thing, I hope I can just stay relatively small and keep making my movies. If I can keep writing them and making them, I'll be happy.