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“I loved 'The Master' a lot. I'm not going to get to work with Daniel Day-Lewis, but Joaquin Phoenix is one of the best around, I think.”

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I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear…

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Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage,…

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I realize that I am never going to grow up.

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I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous.

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All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy.

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I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with. I hope the overall view isn't just that though, or I've failed in my writing. There have…

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I like traveling and I like not being part of the film world. Especially when you're in the middle of a junket, you're thinking, "I'm not doing this again for four years!"That's about taking time and finding the right story and being in a happy place in life where you can joyfully tell a story. I'm not really into the…

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I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

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When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.

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I'm not really into the fame side of things, so I'm very happy with making a film every four years or so.

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