If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention.

All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

I don't consider myself to be particularly gifted in the way that other filmmakers are gifted.

You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.