There's something wrong - the performance, the weather, the set design, the lighting. Something is not working. And so you say, "Give me 10 minutes." When you're first directing, you're terrified. But when you've been in that situation enough times, you know that under pressure, it will come to you.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

Nobody has shot a strip club in black and white in a long time.

There's no escape. I'm God's only man.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.