I'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You can't get too emotionally invested, because again, you've got no control. There's going to be some huge film out that everyone goes to, and it probably won't be mine.

We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.