The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

People often call and say: "Can you help me to get Bill Murray in our movie." But I'm always like, "well I don't know how to do that!" I've sometimes tried and not been able to get him but then I'll suddenly be very surprised by the thing that he will suddenly decide to do.

Mostly with commercial work, it isn't about personal vision. It's not a personal effort, it's work for hire. That's more my attitude with those. You just want to be a professional worker.

Sometimes when you're editing a movie, you have the thing that you don't expect - which is you make it longer and longer as you go along.

That's the kind of movie that I like to make, where there is an invented reality and the audience is going to go someplace where hopefully they've never been before. The details, that's what the world is made of.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

I don't think any of us are normal people.