I Do Like Directing Other People's Material.

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

Do I Have Political Views? You Bet! I Think The Best Way To Express Them Is In Your Work, And Then Get The Hell Off The Stage

You Never Can Predict Things. I Knew The Movie Peducted Would Get A Reaction, Because It's Showing A Different Vision Of Our Soldiers In Iraq. All We Ever Get Told Is That They're Valued And We Support Them, And As They're Represented On Television, They're True-blue And Honorable. Which Is True, For The Most Part.

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've Got To Remind Yourself All The Time That You're Being Measured Against The Fashions Of The Day, And If Your Work Truly Has Any Kind Of Staying Power, Well, People Will Be Talking About It In 20, 30 Years.