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

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.

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. And there's so many expectations involved, too. You're going in to see the latest Martin Scorsese or Stanley Kubrick film, you really have high hopes, and you can't help but find that it's not exactly what you had in your head going in. Until you can watch it again, you can't accept the work for what it intends to be. It takes at least a second viewing.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.

Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul.