We Have To Have A Version Of

I Never Leave The Writer Behind, Because You Rewrite The Movie In Post, Or At Least I Do. I Always Do, And I Feel Like Anybody Who Doesn't At Least Explore That Possibility Is Short-changing Themselves. Editing Is The Most Fun And Most Exciting Part Of The Process.

I'm Probably More Character-driven Than Plot-driven. It's Rare For Me To Attach Myself To An Idea For A Story.

I'm Mystified By The Stuff That Doesn't Work. I'm Mystified By What's Going On In The Critical Side, Too. Stuff I Like Is Getting Trashed And Stuff That Is Being Praised I Think Is Terrible. I Don't Really Feel In Sync With What's Happening, But At The Same Time, What I Think Keeps Me Afloat Is That I Try Not To Be, And Don't Want To Be, Very Indulgent. I Try To Make The Films As Lean As Possible, And To Not Spend A Lot Of Time Crawling Up My Own Ass Creatively.

Everything Had Been Done Long Before I Started Making Movies. I Mean, There's Nothing That Godard Hasn't Already Done. You Can't Do A Single Thing That Godard Hasn't Already Thought Of. And So You Struggle To Do Something That Is Not Predictable.

I Have A Friend Whose Theory Is That You're From Wherever You Went To High School. I Think That's Mostly True.