Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I tend to like to move on. I don't sit around and dwell on things much.

Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.

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

I've been married five times, and people think that's some bizarre thing, yet I've got buddies who refuse to get married and have sex with 15 people a week. I'm like "Which is better?" At least I was trying.

You never know what an audience is going to think about something. The ones that the audience doesn't get, I tend to let them go. I don't like to dwell on them too much.

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.