Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat.

Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.

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.

I did not find my studies particularly enthralling.

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

The original deal we made was that Walker would be treated like a regular movie, rather than an arthouse thing.

You can't change the system through violence.