I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

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

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 care if I get $50 million to do a film.

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.

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.

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.