“There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.”

“Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.”

“Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.”

“Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.”

“Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.”

“In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.”

“'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.”

“Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.”

“I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'”