I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

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

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

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.

I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.