If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.