I want to make a film about a factory worker.

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

Normally my process is to sit in a room and read a script and talk about it and ask questions and just create a dialogue. That goes all the way through shooting. All kinds of thoughts and ideas can find their way in there. As long as you're all on - We're just all trying to tell the story so my job as a director is just to find out what this film wants to be based on, it's just words on a page at some point but then it just needs to go to some level of believable storytelling. I'm discovering the film as I make it, to some degree.

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

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.