Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

The main thing is to do each project the way you want, and if they find an audience, that's terrific. And if they don't, there's nothing you can do anyway, so don't let it concern you that much. An awful lot of good movies have done badly and an awful lot of bad movies have done very well. There are no real rhymes or reasons for it. Sometimes the stars don't always align right. But if you've done the best you can, you feel pretty good about it.

Nobody wants to make something that displeases people, but once you make a film, that's out of your control and you can't think about that. You just have to follow your head and make sure that you're satisfied by putting down what you intended.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.