We think, "If I have more money, I am more valuable. If I make more money, I am more valuable." It's all sort of wound up with this problem that humans have with their failure.

How could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see? I do believe in the beauty and the awe-inspiring mystery of the science that's out there that we haven't discovered yet, that there are scientific explanations for phenomena that we call mystical because we don't know any better.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.