In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for 350 million people. You're just not.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

What are the stories you want people to tell about you?

What's great about things like Kickstarter is that it enables me, finally, and without any bad feeling at all, when people come up to me now saying, "I want to do this." I can just go, "There are no excuses anymore."

You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.

Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.

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