American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

I manage to hide in my movies.

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.