Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I don't think we're done with film by a long shot.

I had a really generic upbringing, I think, when it comes to viewing movies as a kid. I didn't really know what was out there or what was being tried. I was, like, 'E.T.' and 'Indiana Jones.' Those were the only things I knew existed.