A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.

I don't want to live anywhere where I'm breathing two million cars' fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.

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.

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

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.

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

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