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

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

I think, in fact, there's a plus and a minus to knowing my prior work, Happiness and so forth. The plus is of course you can see how I play with the characters, the storylines, and the way things play off each other. And the minus is that it makes you a little bit more self-conscious, that you're not able to enter the movie as it exists and lives and breathes, because you're so busy making references, connections that you're not able to release yourself from and take the film on your own terms.

If I grew up in a different background, I could see myself getting a gun and shooting an abortionist. That's my job, to imagine what could happen, what can make people go in different directions.

A movie takes on its own life, and you have to respect that and be open to it.

People cant help how they look.

I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.