My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

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

"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas.

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

Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.

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.