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I think it's a mistake for young filmmakers to just buy digital equipment and shoot a feature. Make short films first, make your mistakes and learn from them.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

Early on everyone should do, every time they do a big film, they should do a little film. It really does keep you grounded.

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in a film school thing that's being done.