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 have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.

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.

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

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

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

Everybody doesn't have to have a daughter who's a goodie-two-shoes.