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The films are a road map through emotional and intellectual terrains that provide a solution to how one can save pain. As people we know that we are petty, vicious, violent and horrible, but my films make an effort to contain the depression within us and to limit the depression to those areas that …

I see people like Bob Altman, Elaine May, Elia Kazan – great directors. These people shouldn’t be left alone. Somewhere along the line there has to be somebody who makes things easier. Not someone who says like most distributors, ‘Can you do it? Can you be a killer? Can you pretend that everything …

If somebody says there’s an art picture – I don’t want to go! They usually mean it’s beautifully shot, or they used certain techniques, or it’s about loneliness, an empty room with beautiful lighting. And somebody walks through and you hear some eerie music. Very few things come out of the people t…

One of the reasons I make films is to make clear to people that family life is not always going to be a bed of roses. Don’t be upset if you fall out of love, because it’s gonna happen lots of times. Don’t be upset by conflict. The film shows that there is something to a one-on-one relationship, som…

There’s a very small part of all of us that has any kind of value. I think there’s a small part of us that says we’d like to say something better than what is usually said, on the purest level. And the rest of it is con-men and struggling people just like everyone else – where you’re constantly hum…