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One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.

I love to read things that I'm sure won't make a movie.

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

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

I'm not the greatest reader. I feel like I have a bit of dyslexia or something, and that's probably why I became a filmmaker. I have the need to communicate, the need to tell stories; and the need to understand stories led me to movies.

I don't read anything about my movies before or after I do films, or any part of show business. I think that keeps me in a kind of place where I can do the work that I need to do.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

I do a lot of readings.