My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.
Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.
I think I can work with any type of actor.
The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
I'm just a pretty regular dad.
Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.
Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different...
I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and wo...
Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.