I don't try to define the cosmos, I know it's unknowable, but I can understand my place in the world and my place in the universe through a mixture of Taoism, Catholicism, Zen or whatever I have at hand.

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

I only produce things that have so much in common with what I like. I wanna understand what I'm doing. I wanna understand the instincts that are going to inform the story.

Normally a period movie has a lot of problems with the graphics. They look modern made.

I think once a Catholic, always a Catholic. You never escape. I still have Catholic guilt. It is in its basis a really powerful religion and a really strong set of beliefs. They permeate my work in many ways.

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.