I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a week-long run for your movie. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get that.

Everybody wants power and control in their life.

Defeat Them in Detail: The Divide and Conquer Strategy. Look at the parts and determine how to control the individual parts, create dissension and leverage it.

You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances.

Everything changes. This is the key to feeling powerful, but also to being creative in the world.

You want attention, you want to grab some of that airspace that exists out there in a world that's very difficult to get it because it's so competitive and to get it for more than a few seconds. Any attention is good and that can be what we would normally consider as bad attention so I wanted to make you aware of that dynamic.

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.