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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

With movies, you get to be in a bubble while you're creating it, and it's not until it comes out that you see whether people like it or not.

I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them.

When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.

Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, characters that you're interested in, moments you want to explore, themes you want to deal with, music that you want to put in. It's a pastiche of all these things that deal with how you see the world.

A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.