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I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.

Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.

Whenever you do a film for the wrong reasons, it may or it may not pan out. Sometimes people do it because it is a good move or the right move. I don't know; maybe one day I will do a film for the wrong reasons, and it will work for me.

Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that.

I don't want to commit to too many films, as it would result in getting out of touch with what is happening in the industry.

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

I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.

There's always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is a business. The goal is to make a living doing it and to be comfortable.

Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.