But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's land….

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their….

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time..

I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to mak….

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your bigges….

Art should offend people because art should challenge people..

You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios..

Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have ….

Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. ….

The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen ….

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an act….

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their….

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I sa….

Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on w….

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking..