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

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.

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

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

Love the person. Hate the sin.

My paintings capture the humor, zaniness, and depth of the Batman villains as well as the Freudian motivations of Batman as an all-too-human, venerable, and funny vigilante superhero.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie.

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

There's nothing makes you admire people like seeing yourself in them.

This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true.

No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.

Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!