Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

You got to deal with reviews the same way you deal with your views, which I a long time ago stopped reading because the point is if you believe the good ones you have to believe the bad ones. It's kind of all or nothing.

I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.