I think success is a lot more healthy than failure.

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.

I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

Every time you try to make another movie, you never know what will come of it. I can't say it ever gets easier, but it is in it's own way gratifying. I think that because no one movie that you make ever quite satisfies you, you're always feeling, "Next time I can get it right."