I love the opportunity to shoot digital because you can shoot so many takes, it's really malleable, it's a ton of fun, and it is easy.

I'm a big believer of "when there is a will there is a way" but from the studio's perspective I think it just seems like a bigger leap than you can get a sort of bureaucratic move to make.

Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?"

Here is the thing, you can make a dope movie and it may never see the light of day. I am crazy proud of my first movie.

I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

I am a loyalist and I really absolutely love film.

The opportunity to shoot and get the depth out of the film - that I don't think you can get out of digital - is a huge deal for me.

The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...

The brain is not and cannot be the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases.

I never thought I was cute, ever.

There was a general sense that if you were going to get close enough to a CBS executive to tweak his nose, you'd only have one hand free because you were holding your own.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about.

This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance across the page.

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.