What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies which I felt there was a lack of.

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral it didn't take off.

Listen there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change but I've never worked on a movie including my own that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.

By the way movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck it's nothing.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

I cast unusual people in my movies.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

I like movies about failing.

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials movies or writing but not art OK?