"I think a lot of filmmakers think a story is the purpose of the film and that the characters and the actors really have just got to service the story and take it to where it's going. And that seems to me to be the complete opposite of what should be happening 'cause there should be no story. I mean, we spend our lives inventing stories but story actually doesn't exist, you know? We exist and our apprehension of a story is how we explain the, kind of, meanderings that we take, so... there is no such thing as the empirical story, it's just what happens to people."