I figured I would have to tell someone to kiss my ass before it was all over, and I have -- twice.

Songwriting and screenwriting aren't that different to me.

If something really strikes a chord with an audience, if it pops on TV, I don't mind watching it for a few minutes.

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

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.

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

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.