I'm A Grinder. I'll Beat You Because

I Think That It's Fear. The Musicians Themselves Don't Seem To Know Enough About Why They're In The Positions They're In, So They're Afraid To Lose Those Positions. If You're 22 Years Old And You Can't Believe You're Even In The Position To Have A Career Making Music, The First Thing You're Going To Think Is: Maintain. Don't Lose It. And That's Precisely What Causes You To Lose Everything.

That's Why My Attitude, Even On My Larger-scale Movies, Is To Make Them Cheap. The Less These Things Cost, The Better For Everybody.

I Suppose I Could Try To Be Some Avant-garde Artist If I Wanted To, But That Doesn't Interest Me As Much.

If I'm A Director And I Read A Script And I Say Yeah I Really Want To Do This, I Would Never Walk Away Because The Deal Wasn't Very Good - That I Wasn't Getting Paid Very Much Or That The Chances That I Would See Anything On The Back End Were Remote Because Of The Financial Waterfall And The Way It's Structured. I Would Never Use That As A Reason Not To Do Something.

I've Never Been A Snob. It [movie] Is Just About Stories. And I've Never Felt Just Because It's A Big Screen And You Plop Down Your Eight Bucks That Gives It A Special Meaning. It's Just "are You Good At Telling A Story?"