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I mean, music totally comes from your soul.
The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
I’ve seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
Very often I’ve known people who wouldn’t say a word to each other, but they’d go to see movies together and experience life that way.
Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.
I think there’s only one or two films where I’ve had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I’d had the money to shoot another ten days.
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and ‘long-form development’ that filmmakers didn’t have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like ‘The Sopranos.’
The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.