My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

If you show up in L.A. with your shirt inside out or socks mismatched, people start putting change in your cup.

Sometimes I feel like every movie I make could be the last. I know that's not really the case, but if I think about it that way and I'm very careful, then maybe I can build a career, movie by movie, that I'm happy with.

I'm tired of answering questions about myself.

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.

I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.