The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.

I just find it annoying that in these sequences [of the fight scenes], traditionally, there's music trying to pump you up. I don't like that, personally, as an audience member. This just reflects my taste.

Every time you make something that somebody likes, your impulse is to remind them that if you hadn't made some of these other things that they hated, you wouldn't have been able to make the thing that they liked.

I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.

My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.

Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.

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