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There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging.

Generally, with films, what tends to happen is that a few people get a lot of momentum out of it, and a lot of people don't.

The biggest problems with movies are expectations.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

My movies are not messed with by the studios.