Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.
Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.
I write from my stomach.
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.
I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.
I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.
As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.
So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.
I don't miss scenes at all the way that I used to miss them when I was younger making a film. It's actually quite fun to get rid of them now.
Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.
It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book.
You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.
I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.
I don't want to be the angry guy.
My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.
Of course, I'm no dummy.
I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.
Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house.
I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.
