I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.

I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.