I have tremendous faith that there will be greater films to come.

I don't really see a huge divide between filmmaking and television. In the end, a lot of people are going to be watching this stuff on their laptops and their iPhones anyway. So, it doesn't really matter where it comes from, as long as the stories get told.

I don't think I'd ever write anything that I don't also direct just because it's so hard and painful to write as it is.

I think auditions are set up for failure because they're not really the set experience. There's no time to develop the character. You're just looking at someone... if someone's really good in an audition, sometimes they're not good in the film. It's something you learn when you're doing short films. It's the same way that some people do well at taking tests and some people don't. But when you're on a long-term filmmaking process it's a completely different feeling.

Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.

If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.

It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.