My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.

I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.