You never can predict things. I knew the movie Peducted would get a reaction, because it's showing a different vision of our soldiers in Iraq. All we ever get told is that they're valued and we support them, and as they're represented on television, they're true-blue and honorable. Which is true, for the most part.

It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore