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I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

All my movies are achingly personal.

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.

Whatever it is that makes your movie unique is something you should embrace.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.