The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.

It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

The other Clans will soon arrive. The greatest times of our family are before us. And so are the darkest.

When I was growing up, they had just found radio.

Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!

I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.

Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.

Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons.