You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!

When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.

You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can't forget the audience.