I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song. I'm living in a real postmodern time - every single thing sings to you to tell you it's started, it's stopped, you've got a message, you didn't get a message.

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.

A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

Movies are only the result of where we are as human beings.