It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.

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

You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the way it's marketed, or the poster, or what they're telling the public about the film, it's beyond you. Some people don't even see them, because they think they already know it. That can be frustrating, when something you've done is marketed in a way you think is antithetical to what it is.

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.