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

If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.

I remember, like, literally saying - watching some cowboy-and-Indian movie with my mother, and I go, so, if we were back then, we'd be the Indians, right? She goes, yup, that's who we'd be. We wouldn't be those guys in the covered wagons. We'd be the Indians.

A movie doesn't have to do everything. A movie just has to do a couple of things. If it does those things well and gives you a cool night at the movies, an emotion, that's good enough.

Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.

If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

Leni Riefenstahl was the one person Goebbels had no control over in the filmmaking community of Nazi Germany, and they despised each other. But because she was Hitler's favorite, she could do what she wanted. She was the only filmmaker that did not have to cow down to Joseph Goebbels.