Don't make much ado about nothing..

I just got called Nigel..

Start small and with your own money..

There's a lot of freedom for me living in L.A..

I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them..

If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to ….

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow..

I think I've always been kept grounded. I've never been too involved with the movie business apart from just doing the film. I've never moved out to ….

I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year..

Films that I want to do are few and far between..

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself.

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment..

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at..

Even when you're casting, casting is always one of the weirdest subjective areas. You can get a group of people who would decide and say, "This perso….

What I am is what I am. Are you what you are - or what?.

The public be damned..

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does..

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be..

The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional..

I'll tell you what can make bacon better... nothing..

I don't feel comfortable with violence, and I'm not sure that I film violent scenes properly, and it's something I'm reticent to do, and yet violence….