If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.

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

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.

My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.

If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.

Everything had been done long before I started making movies. I mean, there's nothing that Godard hasn't already done. You can't do a single thing that Godard hasn't already thought of. And so you struggle to do something that is not predictable.

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.