I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that point on. That would be really great, wouldn't it? I don't know. I'm in kind of an aloof time, where I'm not taking anything too seriously.

That's the history of art - you have to consider yourself fortunate if you ever get acknowledged. If you have a critical success that's also a financial success and that you feel good about... If things line up, that's pretty rare.

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

All the women are going around saying, "Oh, we're just friends, we're just friends," but the guy's going, "Yeah, we're friends, but as soon as she breaks up with her boyfriend, I'm hoping to move in."

The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.