There are films that I've made that I like a little bit more than the others. But the films that I mostly watch, and see over and over again, are not my own.

Every time you run a 35mm print, it picks up scratches. It picks up dirt. Sometimes it breaks, and you have to re-splice it. You lose frames. This doesn't happen with digital or Blu-ray. I think that's great. Because I love the new media.

We all wind up the same way, no matter what our goals or ambitions are. We have nothing at all to say about how we got into this world or how are going to leave it.

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

I'm not a fan of Star Wars. That is not for me. That is for my nephews and nieces. I don't get it.

When you go to a studio with something you want to make, or they come to you with something they want to make, more often than not, it's a tent pole. Not something one single person is really passionate about on a creative level.

To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.