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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like, 'How do I make this film?' That's part of the pleasure, and that's why I'm not a normal professional director.

I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

For me, the script is important. If it excites me, I'll do the film.

You can throw away your script more easily than you can throw away your film.

I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days.

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.

You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.