Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows.

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

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

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

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

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm not that-I was never that. My abilities are to synthesize a wide range of references and ideas into something that feels relatively unified and coherent.