A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or rather it's about feelings in the abstract.

In the land of ideas, you are always renting.

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

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

A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.

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.

You can't get good at anything unless you do it day in and day out, over and over.