I Like People That Like To Work

You Can’t Take Everything On. That’s Why When People Ask How Does This Film Fit Into My Oeuvre. I Say 'i Don’t Know. I Don’t Think In Those Terms’. If I Did, I Might Become Incapacitated By Fear . . . How Do You Eat A Whale? One Bite At A Time. How Do You Shoot A 150-day Movie? You Shoot It One Day At A Time.

When You Cast Somebody You Cast Them Not Only For... I Look For An Inherent Kind Of Quality. You Are Going To Be Shooting 14 Hour Days And You Are Going To Be Tired. You Are Going To Not Necessarily Be Able To Conjure Armor Or A Façade Every Single Moment.

I'm Totally Anti-commercialism.

Our Pavlovian Response To Movies Has Gotten To Its Lowest Point Ever. You Look At A Lot Of Movies That Are Successful And A Lot Of Movies That Studios Hold Up As Examples And You Go, 'my God, That Isn't Even A Story. It Isn't Even Two Acts. It's Eight Set Pieces Drawn Out With Slow Motion.' The Difficulty For Me Was That You Had To Hope That People Were Interested In This Kind Of A Story.

I Don't Think That Digital Technology Will Ever Take Away The Humanity Of Storytelling, Because Storytelling Is Entirely, In And Of Itself, A Wholly Human Concern.