But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not.

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

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

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

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.

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