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I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

When I was a kid I feel lonely, I have not many friends. If you make a movie, then you can work with different kinds of people and make different kinds of friend. That's very important to me.

A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends.

After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.

I was obsessed with movies, and it ended up being the tool with which I could make friends. Because I was too painfully shy in other circumstances, I would say, 'Hey, do you want to make a movie?' And that's how I made friends, and it was also my escape.

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials.

People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to make new friends because you are a little more cautious.

And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.

Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.