My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.

Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies.

It's called gracious professionalism. The idea is to be open and help more people learn.

When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.