The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.

I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

And you didn't headline movies at 20. You were able to have a career that built little by little by little. It wasn't just like, OK, throw them up there, make them a superstar, pay them $10 million a movie and then watch them self-destruct and you don't care because all you need is the three years [of fame]. It was just a different set of rules.

If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

He is the foremost reason I wanted to make the movie. I'd never been right for one of his movies.