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 have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.

I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow

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.

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