I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.

It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.

Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.