I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?

To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.

Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.