I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?

I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue.

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.

It hit me that an Apache resistance would be a wonderful, you know, it would be a wonderful metaphor for Jewish-American soldiers to be using behind enemy lines against the Nazis because the Apache Indians... were able to fight off for decades both the Spaniards and the Mexicans and the U.S. Cavalry for years because of their - they were great guerrilla fighters. They were great resistance fighters. And one of their ways of winning battles was psychological battles.

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

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.