The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you want.

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!