The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.

You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.

The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.

Death is what makes life an event.

I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.

The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form.

I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.