My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different...
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and wo...
I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.
Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
I'm just a pretty regular dad.
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.
The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
I think I can work with any type of actor.
When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some d...