I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves.

If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes.

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

We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.