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.

I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

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.

Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.

I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.