Never had a cup of coffee in my life. Dr Pepper is my caffeine delivery system of choice.

Whenever you experiment with something, it's very easy to take the emotion out of it. And going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.