The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.

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

I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen.

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

In the land of ideas, you are always renting.

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street.

I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.