The Things That Are More My Own

Some Of The Ideas Are Kind Of Inspired By The Songs, And I Always Want To Use Music To Tell The Story And Give The Movie A Certain Kind Of Mood. That's Always Essential To Me.

There's No Story If There Isn't Some Conflict. The Memorable Things Are Usually Not How Pulled Together Everybody Is. I Think Everybody Feels Lonely And Trapped Sometimes. I Would Think It's More Or Less The Norm.

I Just Want To Make Films That Are Personal, But Interesting To An Audience.

People Seem To Think That My Movies Are So Carefully Coordinated And Arranged - And In A Lot Of Ways, They Are - But Every Single Time I Make A Movie, I Feel That Every Director Makes These Choices. You Make Choices About Your Script, You Make Choices About Your Actors, And How You're Going To Stage It, And How You're Going To Shoot It, And What The Costumes Are Going To Be Like, And In Every Single Detail, You Make That Decision. And For Me, What Ends Up Happening Is, I Wind Up Surprised At The Combination Of All These Ingredients. It Never Is Anything Like What I Expected.

I Love Working With Actors. That's What The Set Really Is, For Me. It's My Time With The Actors.