The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

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.

There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

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.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.