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Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

I love films that are many things at the same time while being simple.

Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.

Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.

Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it's not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system because there's a lot of people, there's money, there's a big machine to kind of make it - and how to find methods and processes that allow it to continue to be a lively process and a creative process.

I made a film that was impossible to make, but I didn't know it was impossible, and that's how I was able to do it.

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Film-making is a physically hard job.