There's a powerful magic about being a writer that I still marvel at.

There are no minor decisions in movie making. Each decision will either contribute to a good piece of work or bring the whole movie crashing down around my head many months later.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

Good style, to me, is unseen style.

Over-length is one of the things that most often results in the destruction of the movie in the cutting room.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

I don't know how to choose work that illuminates what my life is about. I don't know what my life is about and don't examine it. My life will define itself as I live it. The movies will define themselves as I make them. As long as the theme is something I care about at the moment, it's enough for me to start work. Maybe work itself is what my life is about.