I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.

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 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'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.