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

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

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

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.

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.

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