I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

Whatever I was able to do with those experiences certainly contribute to whatever I'm able to do as a director. The corruption in that is that most of what I acted in the last 10 years was to steal film school time from these guys. Those were the people I thought I could learn from as a director.

I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.