I just realized that I need to be a director - for two reasons. One, directors were already my heroes at this point. I wanted to; when I wanted to be an actor I wanted to work with this director. Not work with this actor, I wanted to work for this director.

Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

I do like putting scenario and story first, and I actually like masking whatever I want to say in the guise of genre.

I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you're not that good. You just reached the level here. I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

ou know, if you want to see jackbooting Nazis in movies, you've got to watch American movies made at that time.

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.