There are directors who, their direction is high, but then when you challenge it, it crumbles. They can't back up what they're asking.

I want my audience to say, "Wow, this is a film I'm benefiting from. I'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say." I'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment.

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.

When people go at war they cheapen things.

Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.

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.

I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.