If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to cry. And that's very difficult to make happen.

There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure.

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks.