At This Point In My Life I'm

People Wrestle Sometimes Making Movies, And I Think That Conflict Is A Very Essential Thing. I Think A Lot Of Very Happy Productions Have Produced A Lot Of Very Banal Movies.

Life, Like Poker Has An Element Of Risk. It Shouldn't Be Avoided. It Should Be Faced.

I've Been Friends With The Guys In Radiohead For A Lot Of Years, And I Watch The Way Those Guys Work With Incredible Envy. Because Whatever The Slings And Arrows Of Dealing With The Record Business, At The End Of The Day, They Have Total Creative Autonomy. They Don't Need A Lot To Do What They Do, And Thom [yorke] And Jonny [greenwood] And The Guys Have Their Own Joint In Their Hometown.

You're Always Choosing The Start Point And The End Point. And Almost By Definition, The Most Interesting Period Is Where Something Happens, As A Result Of Which Something Is Different At The End. And So To Me, The Idea That You Know Everything About A Character At The Beginning Is Sort Of Ridiculous. Something Has To Be Revealed. I Like It When The Deeper You Go With The Character, The More You See The Layers Start To Peel Away. It's More Challenging To Me, But It's Also Just Interesting. Those Are The Things I Like To Watch. I Like To Watch The Evolutions Of Something.

If You Try To Make Interesting Films, You're Going To Be Disappointed Most Of The Time. I Choose Just Not To Look At It That Way. I Don't Look At American History X As A Failure, Or Fight Club As A Failure, Or 25th Hour As A Failure, Or Larry Flynt As A Failure, Or Any Of The Movies That I Care About That I've Made That Were Not Immediately Successful. I'll Stand With Those Movies Any Day Over 90 Percent Of The Movies That Came Out At The Same Time That Made A Hundred Million Dollars