There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

Definitely my generation and beyond grew up in theaters and when you make a film you think of the theatrical experience. You think of that big screen in the darkened theater with a lot of people, so that's always the thought behind it. If that's the case, it's nice if that's available. That's great, but I don't really mind if they're watching films on a plane. I don't mind. Anybody who just wants to watch a movie, I can't complain. If that's the way they're going to watch them, that's the way they watch them. Who am I to judge?

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

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

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

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.