I've made a lot of movies with kids in them. I don't know why that is, but it's something I've noticed.

When filmmakers are kept from making films, there's a lot of different reasons why. Sometimes you work on a film and cast it and do all the work and can be just a month away from shooting, and all of a sudden, the whole thing goes up in smoke. But I do think the advent of a digital revolution is going to provide people with opportunities to make films that they never would have had before. I think you can do some pretty credible stuff now with very, very little money. Which I think is great for young filmmakers.

One of the things I've always tried to do is to inject myself as much as possible into the movie, so I feel like it's mine.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.

I think that anybody that wants to direct, particularly writers, should spend some time in an editing room, whether it's a film of theirs or someone else's, or shoot their own picture on video and cut it.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.