I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.

All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.

Yeah, my real name is Coppola. I changed it because they'd think I was some nepotism-oriented kid.

I was thinking about being more global in my work, which means trying more foreign countries and working with foreign filmmakers, hoping they would give me a new take on my work, a new point of view, reinvent me in some way.

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me.

You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen.