I Think Success Is A Lot More

So Far, At Least, I Haven't Found A Way To Tell My Kind Of Stories Without Making Them Both Sad And Funny.

You Always Have To Be Ahead Of The Audience So That They Have To Always Catch Up And Know The Movie's Not Quite Going Exactly Where You Think It's Going, Or Expecting It To Be Going.

I Mean, There Are Many Other Directors Who Are Probably Both More Skilled And Excited To Adapt Novels Or Work Within Certain Genre Conventions. I'd Like To Do That Kind Of Work Someday, But For Better Or Worse I'm Too Drawn By My Own Material.

It's One Of The Great Gifts Of Having So Little Money That You Are Able To Make These Kinds Of Radical Conceits That You Could Never Afford To Do Had You Had A Reasonable Budget,.

I Think There Are Many Advantages To Not Knowing Any Of My Prior Work. The Narrative Threads, I Think, Are Totally Accessible To Anyone Who May Never Have Heard Of Me. There's A Beginning, A Middle, And An End - I Don't Think There's Going To Be Any Confusion There.