The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.

You got to deal with reviews the same way you deal with your views, which I a long time ago stopped reading because the point is if you believe the good ones you have to believe the bad ones. It's kind of all or nothing.

There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be done editorially. You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.

It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport.

I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

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.