You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.