I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.

One of the things when you write, well the way I write, is that you are writing your scenario and there are different roads that become available that the characters could go down. Screenwriters will have a habit of putting road blocks up against some of those roads because basically they can't afford to have their characters go down there because they think they are writing a movie or trying to sell a script or something like that. I have never put that kind of imposition on my characters. Wherever they go I follow.

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

I don't really consider myself an American filmmaker like, say, Ron Howard might be considered an American filmmaker. If I'm doing something and it seems to me to be reminiscent of an Italian giallo, I'm gonna to do it like an Italian giallo.

If I'm on an airplane, a Kate Hudson movie is what I'm looking for. I'll sit there and I'll cry. I think it's the altitude or something like that.

I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'