I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.

As a kid, a little kid I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!