I worked with Jim James on my film 'I'm Not There' - he sang 'Goin' to Acapulco' with Calexico backing him up. We just hit it off, and it's such a beautiful moment in that film.

With 'Poison,' I'm sure some people just hated the movie, but it also got caught up into a debate about arts funding because it was a film that received a National Endowment for the Arts Public Grant, and it won the prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

I saw experimental film-makers teaching in college. They did what they wanted and didn't worry about the market, but the circumstances ended up offering me other possibilities.

I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world.

The best love stories on film are rooted in the point of view of the more woundable, vulnerable party, the more amorous party.

If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker.