I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I'll never make enough films to purge them all.

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.

I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don't censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room... I shoot [needless footage] and then don't use later on in the process.

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.