I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done

The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying to keep from having contempt by admitting that you don't know. Even if you know a lot compared to some other people, usually, I think, the honest experience would be: "God, how little I know! And how much I need to have compassion for myself and for other people."