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Anyone who's putting money into your movie would always rather you cast well-known people.

I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream Hollywood terms.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

I want people to know me through the movies I do. I want to be judged on that. If you start becoming famous for your personal life, that's when your career goes away.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.

People think that I have some idea about how I choose my films. I make sure that I am doing the kind of films that I want to watch. You hear so many stories, and one of them will stand out and connect to you somewhere.

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.