I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.

Those are my goals, you know. To be smart, tasteless, and feeling. Something to shoot for.

The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives.

Thank God I've never been taken to task on a talk-radio show. I won't go on a talk-radio show.

I went to see Chicago after I finished shooting, and say what you want about it, but that thing was so meticulously planned. It was planned like NASA planned its trips to the moon. It made me feel like some sort of horrible dilettante.

You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.

Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films, but I also just couldn't resist throwing in the disruptive. It seems to me that art-house film is at its glorious zenith right now, maybe it can even get better? There's just so many good films, you know Cemetery Of Splendour, Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes, just so much great work coming out.