It's Absurd That We're So Quick To

In Order To Reinvent Yourself, You Have To Dig Deep And Look At Yourself. I'd Lost My Way Creatively, And I Was Humbled, And So I Think I Got Really Basic About Wanting To Depict People In The Ways That I Find Them Amazing And Funny And Emotional And That I Can Relate To And Do From An Instinctive, Gut Place. People Trying To Survive ... That's What All My Movies Are About.

I Think Audiences Deserve The Benefit Of The Doubt. I Prefer To Be Surprised By Them Rather Then Just Assume They'll React Negatively To Any New Idea.

The Whole Trick Is To Make It Feel Like You're Spying On Real People's Lives As They Get Through The Day. When I'm Writing, I Have To Trick Myself As A Writer. If I Consciously Say, 'i'm Writing,' I Feel All This Pressure And Somehow It Doesn't Feel As Real As When It Doesn't Seem To Count As Much.

It's Easier To Control People When They're Afraid.

I Got A Nomination For Director, Which Means The World To Me; It's Just The Most Exciting Thing For Me And My Family. You Do The Good Hard Work, And The Rest Of It Is Something You Shouldn't Get Too Caught Up In, But When It Happens - Boy! I Respect It.