I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.

I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.

I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.

Exhilarating. Radical Grace moved me to tears with its portrayal of good people putting their beliefs into action in ways that transcend all ideological boundaries.

I've been told that I am evil. I've been told that I am behind the persecution of millions of Americans. That I have encouraged hate toward gays. I've received both very brief and obscene messages, and very long and literate messages that tell me a vote for Crash was vote for homophobia.