I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just...
You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.
You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.
You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.
You know it's always amazed me I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.
Yeah, when I write all the time, the advantage of using the Web is just unbelievable. You know, to find out information.
Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.
When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.
Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening.
Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.
The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
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.
That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we...
Sure, but you learn, if you're going to shoot a straightforward story, that you're going to be shooting a lot of close-ups.
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.
Only in the fact that I was kind of a science wonk in the '50s. You know, won a lot of science fairs, built computers.
It's always great when you discover someone.
It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow.
I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly...
I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.
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.