I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

Most people see a documentary about the meat industry and then they become a vegetarian for a week.

I have one of the original 'Ghostbusters' guns in my house.

My writing voice is very much like 'Thank You for Smoking.' It's a guy's voice. It's very masculine.

People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don't. I don't want people to think that I'm trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that's cheap filmmaking.