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

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

I think it's a total fallacy for people to say, "You couldn't make those old movies today." I think there's more ways to get a movie made today than ever in the history of the entertainment industry. It's a very exciting time to work in movies, if you're a creative person looking to make a very personal, weird vision.

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.