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

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

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.

You have to let life come and go.

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.

I believe in the utmost importance of one human being's actions toward another. This is actually what I believe in. How we handle one another, that's what makes us feel isolated, feel like outsiders sometimes. These questions are overwhelming. "What do you do in this world?" I believe in that more than anything.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.