The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.