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.

I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that point on. That would be really great, wouldn't it? I don't know. I'm in kind of an aloof time, where I'm not taking anything too seriously.

In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.

It has to be very tight to seem loose.