I Think Success Is A Lot More

You Always Have To Be Ahead Of The Audience So That They Have To Always Catch Up And Know The Movie's Not Quite Going Exactly Where You Think It's Going, Or Expecting It To Be Going.

You Try To Make Them Comfortable So They Can Do What They're Best At, And Make Them Shine. You Always Want To Make An Actor Shine. I'm Of The Mind That There's No One - You, Your Mother, Anyone, That If In The Right Place At The Right Time In The Right Context, Couldn't Shine In A Movie. And So If It Means, "oh, I Have To Make Them Uncomfortable," Then Whatever It Takes To Get What I Need Up Onscreen. It's All In The Service Of The Story.

I Think There Are Many Advantages To Not Knowing Any Of My Prior Work. The Narrative Threads, I Think, Are Totally Accessible To Anyone Who May Never Have Heard Of Me. There's A Beginning, A Middle, And An End - I Don't Think There's Going To Be Any Confusion There.

The Ability To Take Pleasure In One's Life Is A Skill And Is A Kind Of Intelligence.

I Admit There’s An Element Of Brutality In All My Work - It’s Part Of The Truth About Human Existence I Always Want To Explore - But The Last Thing I’m Trying To Do Is Put On Some Kind Of Freak Show, Inviting People To Get Off On Other People’s Pain And Humiliation.