Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.

For too long we have been taking, and the Earth has been giving. But that free-for-all, that all-you-can-eat buffet, it's over. The salad bar is closed.

My hope is that I'm going to continue to make more and more challenging work that's going to come out more and more interesting. I don't know if that will always continue to happen, but every one of my films has definitely been a progression as far as complexity of narrative, character, and plot.

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

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

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

'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.