What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.

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."

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

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure