To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.

A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.

A barrier for me - which has been both a strength and a weakness - has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.