I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.

Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.