Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.

Trust is always a factor. You've just got to look at the big picture, and you've got to look at the small picture - the small picture in the sense that you've got to make every scene work and you've got to deal with what people are presenting you with, too.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.

Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.

I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside. They don't waste energy marching to the same drummer most of us do. It gives us an opportunity to look at things in a different way, which is the purest thing cinema can do.