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

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I've really dreamed of doing television. All of us do television, coming up. But when I was coming up, television was a black hole for actors. Now, television has a certain cache. Now everybody wants to be on TV because they're doing adult dramas. If you're an actor, it's like, "Well, get me on television," because it's the only place you can do it and also make a living at it. If my kids need shoes, I better do a TV show because I damn sure don't make any money with independent films.

I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.

It's not that I don't understand it. But people think if you speak with an English accent it somehow makes you smarter.

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

I've led a very eclectic life.