“I saw Raging Bull by Martin Scorsese when I was 15. The film made a huge impact on me. On my emotions. I went to see the film again the next day and upon seeing it a second time I understood that Robert De Niro wasn’t really a boxer. That what had seemed like an emotional journey the day before was in fact constructed, thought through, and that my emotional response was the result of an intellectual architecture of sound and image and timing. That was when I first became aware of what a director does and I knew that I wanted to do that.”