My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.

I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth.