I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

He's a failed Hollywood writer in his 50s and he's going back to Phoenix to address a problem he has with his father. This is where I think [writer/director] Bob Dolman has been really clever.

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

We really wanted to pay homage to the older Hollywood movies of the '70s and '80s as opposed to today. Those are all about gore and Asian ghost stories.

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.