Sometimes you'll have great actors who aren't comfortable with improvising. Which can get pretty frustrating. But every actor's coming from a differe….

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men..

I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the f….

I've always had great independence on everything I've done. Nobody's ever told me not to do anything..

The people that I associate myself with are people that are looking to make a good product because it's going to benefit them and it's going to help ….

It's been an obsession of various genres, disciplines, and aspects and elements of movie-making. It's always been something that I've really aspired ….

I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply a lot of the sk….

Everybody's got their tools or their instruments, and it's fun to see how people expose themselves to their profession or their profession becomes wh….

When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited..

I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a ne….

I really strongly feel that when you approach a drama, you have to approach it with energy, honesty, sincerity, and absolute commitment, or don't do ….

I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director..

Sundance [festival] is all your Hollywood buds and buddies and rolling out and high-fiving and "Hell, yeah. Here comes the movie," and in Venice, it'….

I think my interest in risk is pretty high, a lot higher than I think a lot of other people who are just looking for something to kind of define them….

Sometimes an actor doesn't sell an idea 100 percent. It just sounds like something that's coming out of their head. You can hear the gears whirring a….

I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult..

A lot of my best friends are the best person for the job in a film, but sometimes being a filmmaker I'll give a buddy a chance to prove himself. Othe….

One of the things I wanted to do after three, prolonged movies is to do something that was really, kind-of knee-jerk decisions, and artistic instinct….

I never really had a real career trajectory idea. I just like a lot of different kind of movies, I wanna make a lot of different kind of movies, and ….

I consider myself more of a film fan than a filmmaker, or I guess it's kind of a balance, fortunately. But I really want to see good movies as much a….

Fortunately, working with Universal was just a real opportunity of a supportive entity, who not only financially backed and distributed the movie, bu….