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I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

My approach to working in movies is to empower the director to have power over me and to really support his vision because he's the guy, at the end of the day, who's going to put it all together.

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything.

It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

I think the way you make a movie dictates the movie that you make.

Creatively, it's great, because when you write your own movies, you get to create whatever you want.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.