Now in the States if you look at the TV, you see the advertisements, the TV programmes, the pop videos, and the movies, they're all the same style. I think it's very condescending to the audience to assume they only have a three second attention span and so they don't leave anything on the screen for any longer. I don't understand that.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things that happen.

Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really affects me deeply is when you see it taken to the extent where Native Americans become mythical people.