Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.

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

I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.

We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it.

Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows.

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

The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.