I get very driven by certain themes and ideas..

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos..

Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing..

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt ….

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it..

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen..

Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies..

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking..

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em..

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you..

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their inves….

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really inte….

I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and e….

Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke..

I actually did use to sell shoes..

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it..

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just so….

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a trick….

But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on..

I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade..

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the….