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I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.

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If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

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My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.

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At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.

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The word 'operatic' is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because 'operatic' to me means a commitment and a belief to the emotion of the moment that is sincere.

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I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

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Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.

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I remember as a little kid, I would always feel comfortable if the light in the crack of my parents' door was on at night. When it went off, that meant they were asleep. Then that terror and the fear of being by myself started to creep in.

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For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

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I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know if you know this, but 16 or 17 disorders that we carry the gene for.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: Unknown

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