In the land of ideas, you are always renting.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

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.

Everybody, including me, has to submit to what it needs to be. The thing is at the top of the pyramid, the best version of the thing; we all have to serve that. You forget that at your own risk. And I think movies are too long, in general.

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.

The traditional models for success are just also disappearing.

I find myself in situations a lot where I have to say to someone, "This can be better," and it's hard to say that.