It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

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

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

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.

Рow can we be, even if it is the last day on earth? It's like Christmas Eve. "Okay, it's going to be Christmas. So what. What are you going to do? Jump off the Empire State Building?" It's all still the same. The last day of your life is still going to be a day. Then there's that thing, maybe it's not true. Who knows? Are you going to believe it? Are you going to buy it? There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

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