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

The world is constantly changing. You're constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark, and get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

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

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

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.