As The Years Go By And I

I Like Action Films, Not Exclusively, But I Like Samurai Films. I Like Westerns. Not So Much War Pictures, But A Few. I Like Kinetic Cinema.

Each One Of My Movies Becomes Easier To Get Off The Ground.

I Love Comedies. I Take Comedy Very Seriously As A Form. It's A Serious Form, Involving A Certain Way Of Looking At Life, Specifically The Painful Aspects Of Life. I Get Asked, "how Can You Have Such Failures In Your Films?" Well, What Else Is Life About? There's Some Sense Of Constant Failure In Something. Humor Gives You A Distance From It.

A Lot Of Documentaries Have Been Made Very Quickly, But I Think They're Like Frogs In An Ecosystem: They're Harbingers. Film Is Always Two Or Three Years Behind, Because It Takes So Long To Write A Script, Get Financing, And Get It Made. It Just Takes A While. But I Think It's Coming. It Has To.

A Book Is A Book, But A Movie Is A Movie. The More Faithful You Are, The More You'll Come Up With Harry Potter #1 And #2, Which Are Like Filmed Books On Tape. They're So Petrified Of Turning Off The Readers That They Make No Concessions To The Fact That They're Trying To Make A Piece Of Cinema.