You Can't Get Work Without Working.

I Think That Directing Is The Ultimate Martyred Task Of Filmmaking, That It Has Nobility To It. It Takes Three Years To Make A Film, For The Most Part. I Think It Requires The Attentiveness Of A Mother Hen. I Don't Know How People Raise Children And Direct Films. I'm Sorry, I Don't Know, How Can You Be Good At Both?

Every Film Is Its Own Experience, Its Own Planet, Its Own Family. It Seems Infinite When You're Working On It, And Then It's Suddenly Very Finite, And It's Done.

For Me, Going Away To Work Is The Hardest Part Of My Life And Career.

I Don't Know What It Is, Exactly, But There's A Negative Drag On Film Sets After The Second Week Or So, A Mutinous Vibe Because The Infinite Capacities Of The Directors And Everybody Else Become Quite Finite And Everybody's Under The Gun And It Becomes Work.

You Really Can't Take A Cat And Turn It Into A Dog, Or Try And Get Lemons Off An Apple Tree, Or What Have You.