I'm always moving forward and trying new things.

I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.

I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.

...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.

All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.