I don't often meet with strangers and feel okay about collaborating with them.
The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
Anything where people have to work together makes me cry.
Bob Balaban is so perfect that the first movie I did with him, I couldn't talk to him because I was so intimidated by him.
When you work with someone like Dulquer Salmaan, you tend to get a bit intimidated.
When you get the opportunity to work with somebody like Jude Law, there is a fear. They've got lots of stuff under their belt.
I'm super hard on myself anytime I think of an idea for a collaboration. I will rack my brain trying to think of one. I wait for the right person. It stresses me to think that I'd do a collaboration with someone and not make it the best possible opportunity.
It's a treat and daunting to be directing someone like Judi Dench, who's made more films than I'll ever make in my lifetime.
That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.
