You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

I do like directing other people's material.

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.

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years

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

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

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