Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

I'm not judging the films. People make these connections through a film, or because they know them. But the fact that they erase them and have to start from scratch, I think that's an important point. A lot of kids, when they have a camera, have tended to do remakes of existing films. You have a lot of kids that make Star Wars. And I think that's creativity, but not as much creativity as starting from scratch.

I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free.

I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.

I want to explore new ideas and put myself in a place where I can finish a project that is more unusual or that doesn't seem doable.