You want to be able to provide something, and you're pissing down a fucking well. It will suck you dry and take everything you have and, like being a parent, you can pour as much love as you want, and your kid still says, "Just let me right out here, you don't have to take me all the way." You're working to make yourself obsolete. I'm not going to make Persona - my movies are fairly obvious in what the people want and what it is that's happening; it; s not that internalized. What's internalized is how you process the information from the singular, subjective point of view. And that becomes the subtext of it.

About directing films - Gavin Smith goes one-on-one with David Fincher (1999)