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

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

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

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."

Everything that you could think about in life, or experience, or be interested in, theoretically should be expressed or dealt with in cinema. But the way typical narratives are set up, there's no room for philosophy, because it's just digressive material. It's not advancing the plot, so there's no place for it. It's the kind of stuff you would cut out, and that you shouldn't have put in there to begin with.

The truth will only be told over a career.

Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.