I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. I saw the core part of the plot. But if I ever take another look at it then I can see that there was some more stuff going on in there that I didn't realize.

I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.