I think I have pretty good taste in the projects I choose to take on. It's a blessing and a curse - I certainly could have worked a lot more if I was….

Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I ….

Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled th….

I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please mysel….

I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills..

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well..

Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with..

I never thought in terms of a "breakthrough" film. I wasn't looking for fame or a career path into Hollywood. I was doing it for myself. I just wante….

It's certainly a difficult time right now to try to make small, smart films. I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you get to Hollywood, and if you ….

That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effect….

I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me..

The thing I was up against in documentary films - was trying to get non-actors to convincingly play themselves in a way I'd come to know before the c….

I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension that hurts….

There's no choice left in America anymore. Anything that's authentic and genuine, anything that grew out of any sense of tradition, is wiped out. We'….

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's po….

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same..