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The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

I think that my films are basically family stories, beyond the fact that they are global and have political and social commentary.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.