A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as efficient as possible.

So much of the violence in the movies is b.s. violence: A guy in the middle of a large city with 14 people lying on the ground that he's just killed with his superhuman powers, and there's not a cop to be found. Not a siren to be heard. No price to be paid. That's not true, and I don't like that sort of stuff.

I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

The emotions will take care of themselves. You don't have to prod them along. As a matter of fact, you get in trouble when you prod them along.

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

Here are the good things about independent films: They do the more interesting, chancy scripts. They're run by love.

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.