If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

There are very few guys like me. I make a lot of money. I didn't always.

Independent films are very hard to get made, but I'm lucky enough to get them made, so I'm going to keep doing it. I like my independence. I like being able to tell a story the way I want to tell a story. I don't like developing it with a team. I like coming to a story and deciding whether I want to do it or not.

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

We never did just one take. Multiple takes. Many. I did a bunch. Sometimes I do one take. Sometimes I did 20.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.