It's nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues.

I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.

I've never used High Definition video, never, ever, ever, ever, ever. And I never will. I can't stand that crap.

I found this really fantastic used record store in Japan, and I bought all these different records and different 45s, and one of the 45s was just, it had the theme, "Green Leaves of Summer," the theme to "The Alamo" on one side, and then on the flip side was a theme to, the theme to "The Magnificent Seven."

I've always been passionate about these different (film) genres. Kung fu movies, samurai movies, Japanese movies, all this kind of stuff, and my love for it, and just trying to present it in a way that other people can love it as much as I do.

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.