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A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

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.

There are times when you're working with film people when you have to say, 'If the camera were on you, what you're doing would be perfect'.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them.

I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

Films work due to scripts, characters, and what you see on screen.

The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It's nice to go see a film and not know anything about it. Sometimes I feel like we know too much about films.

Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.