There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!

It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

I long for the days when grosses were not even known. There was no weekend competition.

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.