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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

I always think that you finish one movie, you start a new one, and you think, 'OK. I did that last one. Now I've learned. I know how this works.' Then by the end of the movie, you think, 'No, I don't, really.'

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.

The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.

I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.