I'm A Drifter And An Outsider. There's

I'm Not A Romantic. In Life I Didn't Have Much Experience With Romance.

In The Past I've Made Movies That Were Pretty Universally Liked. You Can't Really Hate Them. You Can Discard Them, But You Can't Really Hate Them.

I Am Not Particularly Religious. But I Think We Do Face The Question Of Where God Is, Why We Are Created And Where Does Life Go, Why We Exist. That Sort Of Thing. And It Is Very Hard To Talk About It These Days, Because It Cannot Be Proven. It Is Hard To Discuss It Rationally.

When You Go For Something Because You're Curious About It, You Get Psyched Up About The Chance Of Getting Into It. It's Like An Actor Meets A Role, And You Slip Into That Body And See What Happens, To Experience Certain Conditions, To Adopt A Certain Character. Even Shooting Is A Study Of The Character. I Think Both The Character And The Actor, And Eventually The Filmmaker - Myself - Are Finding A Way To Accept Their Environment And Being Accepted And Feel Comfortable Of Themselves.

Things That Don't Have A Big Impact Seem To Be Crucial. Always When You Go Out To Make A Movie You Have Questions, "what If This Doesn't Work? What If That Doesn't Work?" You Want To Cover Yourself, You Want To Bring Back Enough [footage] So You Can Do Something.