I Always Wanted 'sideways' To Be Like

Cinema Really Lends Itself Well To Big, Archetypal Stories, You Know, Classic Old Stories And You Need Kind Of A Weird, Big Terrain Like The Japanese Plains For Samurai Movies Or The West. You Need That For These Giants To Walk Around.

I Think About What Movie I Would Like To See. I Don't Think Of Them As A Correction Or Palliative. I Certainly Am Irritated By Anything That's Shot In The Midwest And Filled With These Noble People. "oh, They're So Good, And They're So Honest..." I'm Not Interested In That. I Just Think Of What's Right For A Movie.

I'd Love To Be A Director-for-hire And Get A Nice Paycheck And Captain One Of Those Big Ships, But I Think Studios Mistakenly Think I Want To Write What I Direct - Which I Don't. I Write Out Of Desperation, Because I Never Get A Script I Like, Other Than "nebraska." It's A Matter Of: What's The Screenplay? Is It Intelligent? Is It Human? I Don't Care What Genre, What Scale. I'm Here For The Movies.

I Think If You Watch Most Of My Films With The Sound Off, You Could Still Tell What's Going On.

I Never Wanted Money Worries To Slow Me Down Or Make Me Take A Job I Didn't Want.