I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it..

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there..

It's so hard to do anything that doesn't owe some kind of debt to what Stanley Kubrick did with music in movies. Inevitably, you're going to end up d….

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically..

My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him..

It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a ver….

Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging..

You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficul….

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films..

I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This ha….

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots p….

Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out ….

Of course, I'm no dummy..

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not r….

I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling..

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood..

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff..

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film..

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies..

There’s a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point..

I don't want to be the angry guy..