Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating..

I like actors - I used to be one..

When you approach middle age, lots of stuff happens. Your body is aging, you're watching people around you get sick, you're watching people die, your….

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as….

I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them..

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the mov….

I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker..

I do believe you have a wound too. I do believe it is both specific to you and common to everyone. I do believe it is the thing about you that must b….

The conventional wisdom is - people say this all the time - you should only write something when you're far enough away from it that you can have a p….

Yeah, once we decided to use that replacement animation, and the seams are a function of that animation, and other movies paint those out, we decided….

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading..

I have a lot of anxiety about medical things for example. I don't think I'm particularly good at it, but I'd had the practice when I went into shooti….

And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff….

I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - t….

There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be ….

I graduated from college in 1980..

Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work. Tell someone out there who is lost, someone not yet born, someone who won’t be born for….

I do a lot of things intuitively. I'm not often consciously aware of what I'm doing. It's like in a dream: There's something going on that's powerful….

Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask….

I think directing and writing are very different jobs. Obviously, directing is a more social and managerial job. The other thing about directing is t….

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than th….