In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

My film is intentionally political. And I think that's really the issue.

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is, you want it to be seen by an audience. In theory, especially in the independent world, ironically, you do stand a chance of making a bit of money if the film gets distribution.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

I thought that punk in its original state was a revolutionary movement. But like surrealism, it failed in its revolutionary attempt.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.