The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

Justice always has context.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

I read Noam Chomsky. I like some of Gore Vidal's stuff.