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

I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

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.