I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

I make films about working class people.

I love actors and I understand what has to happen within a scene. Any scene is an acting scene and actors never act alone, so there has to be an interchange. If it's a dialog scene, if it's a love scene, it doesn't matter because you need to establish a situation.

You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.

As a filmmaker, "no" is not in my vocabulary. I've got to figure out a way.