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I haven't done many films. But with every movie, I try to showcase a different side of me through a character.

Some movies you fall a step behind, and some you stay in the same place, make the same choices. And then sometimes there are people who know more than you but show you, and that's the maximum you can hope for - doing that with someone who says, 'I like you for what you are, and I want you to be in my picture.'

I connect with all of the characters in my films. That's what makes you want to make a film, that you can enter the mindset, the situation, the conflict, the contradictions.

I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.

I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.

You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.

We had friendly and pleasant relationships with all that worked in our films - many happy memories.

I've always been attracted to films which explore the qualities of courage.

I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real interest in its formal and aesthetic properties - just this idea that it can bring you into a very intimate encounter with people.

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.