People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.

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.

I come from a generation that was surrounded by popular music, but I don't know if anybody's ever going to move the ball forward as far and as fast as the Beatles did.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

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

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.

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