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

I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

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

I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way

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

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 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.