I think this has been an amazing year for American cinema. So I just want to give my first thanks to my fellow filmmakers for strengthening my faith in movies.

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.

A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement.

I feel like all of my characters now take this congested situation, they clash, and from there you purge yourself.