One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

I always make mistakes and I always fix things up, as best I can, in the cutting room.

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.

I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.

I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.

So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and so forth. It's a projection of the ultimate innocence and purity. That's why it's hard to see a dog in its dogness. That's why, when some harm comes to a dog, it's much harder for an audience to deal with that, more so than dealing with harm that comes to a child or anything human.

I can't please everybody and I don't try to. If I can please myself that's enough. For the rest, I just hope for the best.