You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from.

I think there are going to be some social changes that take place due to the Internet, and the availability of the tools to more and more people. I think you are going to find a lot of people re-cutting movies and changing them, making them into their own movies.

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

If I make a movie that has a whole bunch of music in it, I get to listen to the music all day long, and I don't have to say, 'Well, I gotta go back to work and I gotta stop listening to the music.' I get to listen to music and go to work.

I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.