I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

That is definitely a misunderstanding between me and a part of my audience. To be honest, I am often unsettled by the responses some people have had to my movies, and that includes many people who like them.

We say we embrace humanity, but what does that mean? We are all defined by our limits, so to what extent can we embrace all this? Because we all contain within ourselves equally the capacity for kindness, as much as for cruelty or evil. And the best of us are able to suppress those baser impulses, instincts. That's the war within.

I love working with actors. I do.

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

Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.