But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.

I love comedies. I take comedy very seriously as a form. It's a serious form, involving a certain way of looking at life, specifically the painful aspects of life. I get asked, "How can you have such failures in your films?" Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.