There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

Sundance [festival] is all your Hollywood buds and buddies and rolling out and high-fiving and "Hell, yeah. Here comes the movie," and in Venice, it's very elegant, and respectful...It's decadence. It's such a fun way to formalize a movie that is for us a down-and-dirty, gritty movie. And to see it with the red carpet, and rolling up in a Maserati.

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.

The people that I associate myself with are people that are looking to make a good product because it's going to benefit them and it's going to help launch their careers.

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.

Everybody's got their tools or their instruments, and it's fun to see how people expose themselves to their profession or their profession becomes who they are.