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

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit

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.

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

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