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.

Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.

There's a technical reason why I think that frame rate is weird and it has to with your brain's ability to scan beyond a certain rate. The point is I find it looks weird.

You can't change who you are, so I think that the only thing you can do is just never talk to people about stuff and then hope that maybe does something.

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

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

A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or rather it's about feelings in the abstract.