I try to use other songs or bands as reference points - it seems like the easiest way to get across what are really differences of taste or opinion. If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

What's great about things like Kickstarter is that it enables me, finally, and without any bad feeling at all, when people come up to me now saying, "I want to do this." I can just go, "There are no excuses anymore."

People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response.

American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative - I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.