Nothing's really changed for me over the years. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. Relationships are interesting to me. Not just between men and women but fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and friends.

I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.

Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.