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 sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

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

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

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.

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

I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.