I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

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

If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

Every role is approached in exactly the same way, you have to make it believable and that's all. Acting is really serious, like, pretending really hard.