As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.

To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.

If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.

A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.