Things come out of nowhere, and you start evaluating the director, the cast, and all those other things going into it.

There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

It was important for me to have a partner who was ballsy.

I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave.

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.