You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies..

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized..

Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or chang….

I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it..

If you create something that is asking for people to respond as they're going to respond, you have to allow them to respond as they're going to respo….

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity..

Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure..

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. O….

I'm in my mind a lot. I live there..

I can never watch anything I've been involved in, because I know it, and I know what the making of it was like, and I know what's been cut out and ch….

You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis, if not more than once a day, that you a….

And so not only do you have to make that work, you can't really start putting the thing together in any form because some of the shots are very short….

There are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. This is a movie about health and about the body..

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that..

I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the ….

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life..

I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer..

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays..

I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I t….

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks..

There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about….