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It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller. It's great to point a camera, but can you tell a story?

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling.

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands what you want to do and is really supportive of it.

Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the edge of their seats; you have to populate that story with memorable and appealing characters; and you have to put that story and those characters in a believable world. Those three things are so vitally important.