You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

One thing I have learned is that the people who label you are usually the ones who know the least about who you really are and they have never made the effort to learn different.

You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski

When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

We never talk about gambling around my house.

Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.

There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

I think that my sensitivity to music has actually deepened and expanded as I've gotten older. You add more life experience.

The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.