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

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.

It's a gamble you take, the risk of alienating an audience. But there's a theory - sometimes it's better to confuse them for five minutes than let them get ahead of you for 10 seconds.

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.

I write from my stomach.