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 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.

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

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

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

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

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