Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of production, that sometimes we can't focus on our main job, which is steering the performances to create the whole film.

Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.

I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.

For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.

For me, there's a bad year of getting started on something. You write bad stuff and it's awkward to throw it out, and you wait around to get some good ideas that maybe do come or don't come. Until eventually you get the voice and autonomy of the characters, the characters have personality, and they sort of pick up the weight and put it on their shoulders. That's when it becomes a little more fun.

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.