American movie audiences now just don’t seem to be very interested in any kind of ambiguity or any kind of real complexity of character or narrative - I’m talking in large numbers, there are always some, but enough to make hits out of movies that have those qualities. I think those qualities are now being seen on television and that people who want to see stories that have those kinds of qualities are watching television.

In the land of ideas, you are always renting.

We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it.

If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.

Whenever you experiment with something, it's very easy to take the emotion out of it. And going back and forth between wanting to be respected artistically and wanting to move people is its own challenge.

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

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