I do like directing other people's material.

do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage

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

I love working with women. I think they're beautiful. I like to photograph them. I like the way they interact. When I was in high school I used to hang out with the girls. When I went to graduate school, I was in an all girls school. So it's something I'm very familiar with and quite fascinated by.

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.

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