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

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

I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.

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

Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.

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.