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 camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

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.

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

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.

I do like directing other people's material.