I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.

It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.

I had to get over my fear of running through the world naked and learn to say 'take me or leave me.'

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.