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There's only a certain number of movies I'm going to get made, and it's important to me that they each be original somehow.

As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.

I just don't want to make the same old movies. I'm not interested in it. Directing's hard. It takes up a lot of your life, and I'm not that interested in making the same old film.

If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.

I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.

All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

I really don't want to make the same film twice, so I am conscious of going after material that is significantly different to anything I've done before.

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.