The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes of people who don't have a high school diploma, don't even speak English, and offer them a home at zero percent down, that doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense.

Most of the projects aren't that interesting anymore. There used to be a day when the studios made amazing films, and they were about human beings.

I think happy and hope is more hopeful when you acknowledge that there's awful things too.

So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.

We're living in a time period where if a kid is on a plastic scooter that's one inch off the ground, mom and dad think he should have a helmet on. I don't think they should have a helmet on. They should break their leg and have an imagination. Otherwise, we're going to have a nation of accountants.

Sometimes we have dreams, but we just can't make them. That's normal.

I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own films and about cinema in general.