When you're trying to get laid, everything's great, but once you've been with someone eight years and the future is not finite, you have time to sit and really examine every little thing that irritates you.

It has to be very tight to seem loose.

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

The truth will only be told over a career.

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.