Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

I'm interested in social commentary.

My criteria for doing a television series never changed. I wanted more stability, I wanted more of a sense of family, I wanted to do light comedy.

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist, whereas film was not.