There is no definitive guidebook on how to pick the right partner, and even if there were, I'm way too dumb to write it.
“What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?”
“Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.”