When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.
As journalists, because you don't carry a gun, you sort of become this observer.
I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.
I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.
I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.
I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.
What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed.
But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.
Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.
I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move.
You gonna do somethin'? Or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?
I liked hockey, and I still like hockey.
George Bush doesn't care about black people.
In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.
I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.
I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
