There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.

I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post. It means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.

Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative - I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen.