Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.

We must be born with an intuition of mortality.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.