I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures

You've got to remind yourself all the time that you're being measured against the fashions of the day, and if your work truly has any kind of staying power, well, people will be talking about it in 20, 30 years.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time

I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations