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Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.

I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.

A lot of films come out before they're finished.

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.