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I've actually been very lucky. I really appreciate actors, though, I'm not a dictator. I like to collaborate with them. It's like a gift to create a character with someone that I respect and then hopefully it is elevated above what we would each do on our own.

Who haven't you worked with that you'd like to get in one of your films?

Oh man, I don't want to give out a list, but it'd probably have about 300 names on it. There are so many amazing people ... It's so unlimited and exciting to me.

Where do you draw the inspiration for your films?

Not just from American cinema but European and Japanese, too, and movies from India. My inspiration also comes really a lot from music and books and painters, and anyone who expresses anything that really hits me becomes a big inspiration for me. It's just amazing the gifts people have left us. I take inspiration too from dreams and little shards of conversation I overhear or the quality of light on the surface of water. I never know what's going to hit me, but I try to always stay open. My job is to kind of be a receptor so I am always kind of open to things going into my soul, but I'm never sure from what angle they might hit me.

Do you carry a notebook?