But steady-cams are very different than hand-helds, because hand-held gives you that verite feel.

Classical scores go up and down; they're kind of hysterical in a way. And movie scores are much more - they just drive and move forward, and they build and can't go up and down at that same speed. It's a big job to turn that into something that pushes the movie along.

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

People have been screaming about the end of times forever, it's always the end of times. But there's just so much evidence that the world is changing so radically right now. How much can the world take?

When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world.

The '90s were a party, I mean definitely maybe not for the grunge movement, but people were partying harder in the '90s than they were in the '80s. The '90s was Ecstasy, the '80s was yuppies. There was that whole Ecstasy culture. People were having a pretty good time in the '90s.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking