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.

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

I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace.

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

I make every movie like it's the last one. "If this was the last movie, what decision would I make?" That's how I make my decisions.

I feel I need to really think about whether there's a way to use what skill I have to address things that outrage me, like the 13 year old girl getting stoned to death. Because I don't think making a movie is going to help that, or change that.

You can't change who you are, so I think that the only thing you can do is just never talk to people about stuff and then hope that maybe does something.