There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.

I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too. Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.

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.

In the land of ideas, you are always renting.

I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.

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

I want to form a political party that's based entirely on what music people listen to. To me, it's a much better barometer of what they think and feel than their political stance.