“I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.”
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I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman, ' and it knocked me on my ass.
I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.
There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.