If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.

I’m not much of a drinker, so I’m going to eat seven pounds of pork.

I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.

The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now.

My songs aren't built around choruses or hooks or anything like that. That's kind of how I write screenplays too.