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."

The key is, how do you feel with the one asshole? They cannot be talked to. That's why they are assholes.

Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I don't have one style that I want to take from movie to movie.

I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.

I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.

It's a weird thing to say, but it would appear to me axiomatic that if you understood fully what I was doing and appreciated it, you would like it.

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.