I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.

I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.

What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.

You're encouraged to do the same kind of movies. But I would like to keep doing different things.

Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're different from a lot of other art forms, but also it makes it seem like when you see the final product, you go, "I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done this."