I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.

I'm Jewish. Went to a Jewish school.

You have to understand where the camera needs to me. There were times where you were suddenly aware where the cameras were, then you were in a different place and it didn't feel like the same movie.

I've never been happy doing stock work; I've never been happy thinking that I haven't changed something.

I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

I've always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue-intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

I don't think I'm the right man to adapt a book.