You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

When I look at the directors that I really love, who really develop their films over time, they're almost always the ones who go back again and again and again at the same investigations. I think that when somebody has a theme they go after, it's fun to service that. It's like, "I know you now. I know what you go at." It helps you locate yourself a little bit quicker in their world.

I never even considered comedy genre as something to embrace or move away from.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.