The great coming to age of cable is really a beautiful thing. No commercials. It's like a small theater. It's a cinema on a TV screen.

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.

The more unknowable the mystery, the more beautiful it is.

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.