Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.

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

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

I have a lot of films that I haven't gotten made, and that continues to trouble me. But someday, some way or another, I think I will. It's all about timing. There's a moment when you're hot and studios will make your next film, and then there's a moment when you're really cold, and they couldn't care less what you want to do next. That's when you have to recede and make lower-budgeted films.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.

If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?