I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace.

It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen.

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

You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.

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.

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

It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.