I don't know what it means to be out there against the Olympics.

Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire.