American - Director | September 11, 1940 -
You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.
Brian De Palma
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However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.
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You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.
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Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.
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You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.
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And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.
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I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.
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I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.
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The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
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The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
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I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.
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I do like directing other people's material.
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