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

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

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.

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

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

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.