You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.

I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.