Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.

Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.

The stigma of the straight-to-DVD thing is over.

It's so hard to raise money for independent films and the fact of the matter is that the bigger my star or whatever is, as a result of doing bigger pictures, the easier it is for me to get money for my own projects.