You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective….

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out….

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture w….

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're mani….

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists..

You've got to remind yourself all the time that you're being measured against the fashions of the day, and if your work truly has any kind of staying….

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school..

Everybody doesn't have to have a daughter who's a goodie-two-shoes..

The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second..

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in ….

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.

I do like directing other people's material..

You never can predict things. I knew the movie Peducted would get a reaction, because it's showing a different vision of our soldiers in Iraq. All we….

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a ….

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system ….

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot….

I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way.

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being….

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence..