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.

The job of the writer and the filmmaker is not to impose his vision on the reality, but to be inspired by the reality and create a vision out of that.

You have to let life come and go.

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

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

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.

We're living in a world that says that if you engage in mass fraud, you'll be rewarded, but if you go down the street and steal an orange juice, you get arrested.