To Me The Director’s Job Is To

Everything Had Been Done Long Before I Started Making Movies. I Mean, There's Nothing That Godard Hasn't Already Done. You Can't Do A Single Thing That Godard Hasn't Already Thought Of. And So You Struggle To Do Something That Is Not Predictable.

There Is Sadness Of When You're Watching Someone Enjoy Something That You Think Is Substandard. The Ineffable Sadness When Someone Is Happy And Something Is Not As Good As It Should Be.

We Have To Have A Version Of Our Own Story That We Keep Telling Ourselves That Allows Us To Get Up In The Morning. This Version Of Yourself Is What You Sell To Yourself. I Think It Necessarily Includes ... Not Looking At Certain Things. Everybody's Got Some Blind Spot.

I Grew Up Mostly In The South, And There's Definitely Something About The South That's Different From The North. When People Ask Me Where I'm From, I Say Louisiana. I Spent More Years There Than Anywhere Else.

It's A World In Which People's Motives Are Questionable And Shadowy.