However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

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

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

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.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations

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