I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.

I always have to presume that each movie is my last movie because I never know if I'll get money again.

Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies is a passionate, intensely emotional experience for me. I'm detached from the characters only to the degree that I have to be in order to write honestly about them.

I love working with actors. I do.

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

What's most insidious about MTV is that it commodifies precisely those things that young people believe are subversive. In other words, subversity itself has become a commodity. It's all a way to trick young people into believing that there's something unique about what they do, but this is all completely a corporately designed maneuver.

But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.