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

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

There are things I want to say: They are very important to me, and, not being a writer, I do it through movies.

What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.