I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to..

To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfam….

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their….

I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists..

I don't think all films should necessarily look like they do on digital video. I think it cheats the audience, at some point. If you try to make an e….

All I've learned is that you need the studio system sometimes, if your budget is a certain size, and other films you can do independently. When I thi….

I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I w….

I'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You can't get too emotionally invested, because….

I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that point on. That would be really gre….

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles..

I have a lot of films that I haven't gotten made, and that continues to trouble me. But someday, some way or another, I think I will. It's all about ….

Your friends are really an extension of your vision of the world. It's kind of a physical manifestation of how you feel. Like your soul..

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism..

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else..

Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it..

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone..

No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted..

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone..

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little..

I want to make a film about a factory worker..

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size..