Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

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

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.

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

What makes me put pen to paper? You know, that's the million-dollar question. I've been writing since I've been reading. It's not a question I think that's even meant to be answered, but it's something you always seek to discover the answer to. And the process of filmmaking is one of discovery, and self-discovery at that. Pleasure... it's not exactly what I would call fun, but it's absorbing.

There can be a blurry line between laughing at the expense of a character and laughing at the recognition of something painful and true. But blurry as it may be, it is nevertheless unmistakable, and sometimes the laughter I hear makes me wince.

I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.