Each One Of My Films

I Hate Movies That Tell People What To Think. I'm Proud That Democrats Thought 'thank You For Smoking' Was Their Film And Republicans Thought It Was Theirs. I'm Proud That Pro-choice People Thought 'juno' Was Their Film And Pro-life People Thought It Was Theirs.

I'm Not Michael Moore. I Think Michael Moore Wants To Tell You How To Think. He Wants To Give You Answers. I Make Movies To Raise My Own Personal Questions And Not To Give Answers.

The First Thing I Say When People Ask What's The Difference [between Doing Tv And Film], Is That Film Has An Ending And Tv Doesn't. When I Write A Film, All I Think About Is Where The Thing Ends And How To Get The Audience There. And In Television, It Can't End. You Need The Audience To Return The Next Week. It Kind Of Shifts The Drive Of The Story. But I Find That More As A Writer Than As A Director.

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.

I've Always Had An Underdog Perspective.