I Tried Working Odd Jobs That Had

For Certain Things, Certain Audiences, People Will Laugh. And In Other Places, There's Dead Silence. And I Enjoy Them Both. You Try To Make Films Where It's Never One Way - Like Life.

I Tried Working Odd Jobs That Had Nothing To Do With Creating, And It Was Difficult For Me. In The End, I Just Always Loved Movies. When I'm Making A Film I Feel Most Alive, Like I'm Doing The Right Thing, And I'm In The Place Where I Need To Be.

What I Remember Myself From Films, And What I Love About Films, Is Specific Scenes And Characters.

Directing, To Me, Starts Even Before We Get To The Set. Directing Is A Fluid, An Abstract Thing. It's Not Done Only Purely In The Moment. It's An Idea That You Plant Before. It's A Location That You Show. It's Something I Whisper In Someone's Ear. It's A Freeform Thing. It Only Takes Me A Week To Write The Script, But It's Years That You're Thinking About It. The Execution Is Really The Fast Part.

Even Gene Kelly: I Always Preferred Him To Fred Astaire, Just Because He Was More Athletic, Like Skateboarding. His Leaps Were Big. There Was Something Really Great About His Moves.