It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

I want to change the system from within the system. And that means focusing and specializing.

What the digital age has offered us, in terms of connectivity and transparency, is that all of these people from weird places in the world are all talking to each other, at four in the morning, and are sharing ideas. There's more openness than has ever been known, so that's a good thing.

I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else?

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.