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Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.

Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens.

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

I am my own worst critic, and I look at 'Death Sentence' now, and I go, 'Oh wow, I have really come a long way.' In terms of a filmmaker, I feel like my filmmaking language has really matured.

I dread to be compared to all these directors who have a lot of spontaneous emoting and swearing in their films - that is death; it's a cul-de-sac. It doesn't lift the material at all. It's just a cliched reproduction of what we think is normal behaviour.

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.