You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.