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I'm interested in making films that make people think.

I don't have a desire to make films that have cardboard cut-out or Hollywood stand-in replicas of humans. I need the real deal.

Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.

The kind of films I want to make are struggling to get made. And if they are getting made, they're getting made on shoestring budgets with not enough time.

I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out.

I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.

I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven years, and I for four, was turned down by every studio. Every studio in the world had passed on it.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.