I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

I don't need to push myself. I don't need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat. I'm trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

I'm in a house where if the washing machine shuts off, it sings a song. If iPad gets a message, it sings a song. I'm living in a real postmodern time - every single thing sings to you to tell you it's started, it's stopped, you've got a message, you didn't get a message.

I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.