Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie..

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell..

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 ne….

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely ….

I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience..

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

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions..

Any time someone doesn't like one on the first run, I hope they will give it another shot. At least we'll get another chance. But I do feel, in my ap….

I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something I make any effort to do. I just want to mak….

I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - n….

People seem to think that my movies are so carefully coordinated and arranged - and in a lot of ways, they are - but every single time I make a movie….

Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy..

I don't really wanna think about themes. I wanna just think about the experience of the movie. I feel like, as soon as I reduce it to a theme, once I….

With each movie I have a different set of inspirations..

If I have ideas, I want to put them in the movie. It's not a minimalist approach at all but I feel like it's for the audience. It's about seeing how ….

You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that so….

Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most in….

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was tal….

When I see the first dailies on any movie, I usually feel that I had no idea how this combination of ingredients was going to mix together, what it w….

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail..

What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself..