I want to make a film about a factory worker.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.

I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.

I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.

Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.