I Always Have To Presume That Each

Casting Is Everything. If You Get The Right People They Make You Look Good.

I Think, In Fact, There's A Plus And A Minus To Knowing My Prior Work, Happiness And So Forth. The Plus Is Of Course You Can See How I Play With The Characters, The Storylines, And The Way Things Play Off Each Other. And The Minus Is That It Makes You A Little Bit More Self-conscious, That You're Not Able To Enter The Movie As It Exists And Lives And Breathes, Because You're So Busy Making References, Connections That You're Not Able To Release Yourself From And Take The Film On Your Own Terms.

I Love Working With Actors. If You Cast The Right Person In The Right Part At The Right Time, They Make You Look Like A Better Writer And Director Than You Really Are.

Art Has A Smaller Audience Than, Say, Movies Or Other Forms Of Mass Consumption. But That Doesn't Mean The Work Doesn't Have An Impact In A Way That Transcends Just A Few Cultural Arbiters.

What Makes Me Angry Is The Idea That People Would Be Going To A Movie Because Of What I Said About It. It Makes Me Feel, I Don't Know, Arrogant, Self-important, Self-aggrandizing, Whatever. Like I'm Being Used.