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.

A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, "This camera's really going to be a character. I want people to feel like they're being punched."

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

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

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

It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.