The best set was probably 'Bloody Sunday.' We had no money for extras and gambled on months of outreach to persuade the people of Derry to turn out and march for us on one single afternoon. And they did. In their tens of thousands. Seeing them march, their patience and their dignity and their commitment, I knew the movie would have a quality of truth.

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.

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

All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.

I recently decided that I'm not an originator. I'm a synthesist.

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.

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.