The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

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

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.