I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't.

It's a world in which people's motives are questionable and shadowy.

We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it.

In the land of ideas, you are always renting.

I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.