The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.

The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor. Do that first and say yes to people like Terrence Malick and Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen when they come and offer you movies. It's a great front row seat to filmmaking.

Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.

I'm not going to have a better day, a more magical moment than the first time I heard my daughter giggle.

The first instinct is love.

There's the old notion that where there's choice, there's chaos, and where there's no choice, there's clarity. If you've got no choice, you've gotta be there, and you've gotta have your heart in it. It leads to a much less self-conscious life.

I really love to make movies.