- Filmmakers he considers his biggest influences: Claude Jutra, Sidney J. Furie, Nicolas Roeg, John Cassavetes, Jacques Rivette, Joseph Losey, Robert Altman, Andrei Tarkovsky, the team of Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. Favorite films include: Mon Oncle Antoine, The Leather Boys, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Ipcress File, Kamouraska, La Belle Noiseuse, Celine and Julie Go Boating, A Woman Under the Influence, Dear Mr. Wonderful, L'Atalante, The Cloud-Capped Star (1960), Puzzle of a Downfall Child, Profound Desire of the Gods, Hester Street, Montreal Main, and Andrei Rublev.
- In lieu of a formal script, prefers to write a detailed scene-by-scene outline, then give the actors a precise sense of what should happen in a given scene. From there, he allows them to freely improvise around that, as he is extremely skeptical of following any script dialogue verbatim.
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