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

I don't think all films should necessarily look like they do on digital video. I think it cheats the audience, at some point. If you try to make an epic and you shoot it digitally, that doesn't make much sense. I think there's a certain kind of film that could be a "digital film." But it shouldn't be interchangeable with other films. It should be something more than just a capture medium. It should be a different form altogether, something new.

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

I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.

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

There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.

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