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.

That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.

I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.

It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.

Everybody, including me, has to submit to what it needs to be. The thing is at the top of the pyramid, the best version of the thing; we all have to serve that. You forget that at your own risk. And I think movies are too long, in general.