When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.

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.

I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.

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

I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.

I actually didn't find out about a lot of music until I was older. Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.