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.

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.

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.

You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not quite going exactly where you think it's going, or expecting it to be going.

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

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.