Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.

Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I don't have one style that I want to take from movie to movie.

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

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.

I actually didn't find out about a lot of music until I was older. Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.

I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.