There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema.

In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

My first job, honestly, was as a proofreader. I say that a little disparagingly, but it actually was this sort of incredible thing, where I got this job proofreading for a cable television magazine.

When a crisis occurs, I feel that one of my greatest responsibilities is to set a tone of calm no matter what the problems. Sometimes I have to fake confidence a lot. I also have to fake calm.

The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities.

It's humiliating to have to explain your value.

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that directors vision.

I came to New York, and it was a really cool time. People like Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee were making their first movies, and they were making movies that were personal narratives.

I always say, what really makes a movie commercial is that it makes its money back.

I think that when you're doing an under-four-million-dollar movie, you just can't throw money at the problems.

You want me to paint you?’ Genna spoke up raising an eyebrow of displeasure.‘All of me.’ James bowed his head to Genevieve and whispered the words slowly.

I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

I don't lie; I improve on my life.

If they invent a four legged chicken," Will said, "Horace will think he's gone to Heaven.

I think that there is a problem with rewards and consequences because in the long run, they rarely work in the ways we hope. In fact, they are likely to backfire.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.