Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows.

Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something.

I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.

I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.

I try to use other songs or bands as reference points - it seems like the easiest way to get across what are really differences of taste or opinion. If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.