The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.

The minute you realize that your options are unlimited, things just start falling into place all around you.

The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell 'action' and 'cut.'

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.